Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: severe heart disease

  • Struggles, gratitude, and love

    Jeconda HarrisDavid G. ThoelePark Ridge, Illinois, USA Poet’s statement Jeconda Harris, my patient for 17 years, gave me a collection of her poetry and expressed her desire to have it published. Regretfully, this did not happen within her lifetime, but, with her mother Barbara’s consent, her wish has finally come true. “Life’s Struggles” reveals the…