Volume 10, Issue 2 – Spring 2018
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The Sixth Hektoen International Grand Prix essay competition received a record number of submissions and we thank our readers for the many wonderful articles they have sent. Out of over two hundred applicants, our contest judges selected the following winner, two runners up, and nine finalists who are highlighted below.
Winner
Tales from the crypt: the mosaic symbolism of Louis Pasteur’s tomb, by Dr. Abigail Cline
Runners-up
The education of Doctor Chekhov, by Dr. Jack Coulehan
“Mississsippi Appendectomy” and other stories: when silence is complicity, by Dr. Alida Rol
Honorable mentions |
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“I shouldn’t know you again if we did meet:” Prosopagnosia, by Dr. Sylvia Karasu A hospital for sick children, The basest of the senses: medical unease |
Cultivating clinical compassion with cultural encounters, by Jeffrey Lee The monarch, the musician, and the Medical deafness or the madness of |
Bugs and people: when epidemics change history, by Dr. Salvatore Mangione Why ‘Nurse’ Grace Poole is the greatest The unsexed woman: depictions of |