Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Man with a Shattered World

  • Amnesia remembered

    Karen Langer New York, New York, United States   Amnesia, the medical record noted. He developed amnesia after a mechanical fall on black ice, resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury and a hip fracture. After surgery to repair the hip, there was onset of metabolic encephalopathy, and between the encephalopathy and the brain injury…