Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: poetry for doctors

  • Reading poems, saving lives

    Dean Gianakos Virginia, United States   Men and women who tout the value of poetry like to refer to a stanza in William Carlos Williams’ famous love poem, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”, written in 1947: It is difficult To get the news from poems Yet men die miserably every day For lack Of what is…