Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Tales out of medical school

  • Tales out of medical school

    Charles H. HalstedDavis, California, USA In first-year anatomy class, I shared a rectangular metal table with three other twenty-one-year-old men and our assigned corpse, a blank-eyed, obese, and lifeless white seventyish woman. Half of my classmates were former Eastern prep school boys, the others mostly Jewish men from New York City. There were two women…