Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Richard Selzer on writing

    Photography by pikimota   Someone asked me why a surgeon would write. Why, when the shelves are already too full? They sag under the deadweight of books. To add a single adverb is to risk exceeding the strength of the boards. A surgeon should abstain.  A surgeon, whose fingers are more at home in the steamy…