Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: ruptured heart

  • A fortunate man

    Martin DukeMystic, Connecticut, United States Earlier in the week the last patients were seen, their records given to them or sent to their new physicians, and the final farewells were said. The movers have left, and the office is now empty except for an old cast-iron medicine cabinet, a pencil sharpener attached to the wall,…