Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: pigeons

  • The birds of death

    Edward TaborBethesda, Maryland, United States I got to know the children’s hospital when I was in my second year of medical school and was assigned to the pediatric rotation. From one perspective, the building had the wrenching sadness of childhood disrupted by illness. But it also had benevolent stories: most of the children who arrived…