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Published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine (www.hektoen.org)
Volume 1 Issue 4 - August 2009.
Medicine and Literature
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Mauro Spicci, PhDMedical History
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Citizen Zinsser:
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GI Joe: The Life and Career of
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Tuberculosis
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High Drama in the SculleryGeorge Dunea, MD Hektoen Institute of Medicine, Chicago Then, as now, many hospital doctors, especially the more recent graduates, have tended to look down on the efforts of the “local M.D.,” the general practitioner or primary care physician. They often regard themselves as better educated, more competent, and more up-to-date. They forget that much of their prowess is based on their ready access to the facilities of a modern teaching hospital, whereas the local M.D. is often struggling on his own, left to his own resources. More... |
Here is someone who could easily be a role model for Strauss’s Ein Heldensleben. He lived during a pivotal time in medicine – the year he was born was the year of Karl Rokitansky’s death, William Welch was studying pathology in Germany, the classification of bacterial organisms was 6 years old, Edison had just invented the phonograph and the Congress of Berlin was attempting to separate the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans. 
Dr. Joseph B. Kirsner began his professional career with the strong desire to care for the individual patient. Over the years, the doctor-patient relationship became the cornerstone of his career. Through fortuitous and felicitous circumstances, he found his way to a great university, the University of Chicago. There his vision was expanded to encompass the many possibilities of medical research and the importance of continuing medical education. On September 21, 2009, Dr. Kirsner will celebrate his 100th birthday. 
Few diseases have captured the imagination more than tuberculosis. TB fascinates many people - scientists and epidemiologists, artists and humanitarians, sociologists and physicians. It is as much the stuff of art and song as a merciless killer of the young and old. Even its name conjures the image of the waif with a chronic cough and worrisome hemoptysis. Art and Medicine
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Over the course of one year, I collected drawings by my female students that addressed three questions related to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: What is your first memory of color, what is your first memory, and what objects do you remember being surrounded by during the invasion? The resulting drawings, done outside of the classroom by young women in their early 20s, were collected and analyzed. Visual results from this study revealed color, image and symbol patterns in drawings that represent a select population’s response to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 
Non-Fiction Creative WritingLearning Compassion - Learning Forgiveness
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Maximum Security Kindness or the Public Health Nurse Accrues her CEU’sGeraldine Gorman, RN, PhD College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago Within walls of the peeling paint and behind barbed wire, beneath the gun-turret towers, I find sustaining peace. Looking around at the sangha members assembled on their black and green zafus and mats, I see testimony to fortitude. And more—to integrity. These men, with a minimum sentence of twenty years, could easily have calcified into molten artifacts of rage, despair, and nihilism. Instead, they chose a different path. They opted not only to care but to care deeply, paying close attention in a way that we, who are too much of the world, do not. More... |
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Body Electric - The Medical School JourneyA Window on IatrogenesisNorm Lieska, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine The medical school journey is a roadway lined with many mileposts. These appear suddenly and pass quickly - in laboratories, lecture halls, clinics, and patient rooms. Often the travelers are not even aware that they have passed a milepost in the fogs of their arduous journey. We who attempt to help these travelers learn the intricacies of the roadway are amazed to see how quickly they mature - in medical, world, and personal knowledge. More...
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Poetry
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Creative Thinking In MedicineCreative Thinking in Medicine: Can We Learn it from the Masters and Practice it?
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A Look At Leprosy
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Thirteen Congolese patients had gathered under the shade of an acacia tree and sat waiting their turn to come forward and be examined. It was a clinic day like many others, and a young woman, perhaps in her early 30’s, sat amongst the older people, her chin supported rather nonchalantly by her right hand, her elbow perched on her knee. Henrietta Mbumbu’s attitude seemed to convey that she was bored and possibly puzzled why she was in the Tshimuanza Leprosarium with twelve other people, all much older than herself.