Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Wounded healer

    Brandon Muncan Stony Brook, New York   Jaques-Louis David. Belisarius Begging for Alms. 1781. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. Since Plato, the notion of a sufferer helping the suffering has been proposed as one of the more skillful ways of helping a patient through an illness.1 Although this concept has been discussed since the time of…