Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: tiny body

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    Brianna Rossiter Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA   Children Playing with a Mask by John Smith. After Balthazar van Lemens. 1703. Philadelphia Museum of Art. We stood surrounding her tiny body in the hospital bed. Her shallow breaths were splinted by pain as we watched, myself and four second-year, male medical students. Her breath would catch and…