Her name appeared on my schedule that Monday, the last of the late afternoon patients. The appended note read: “rash on leg.” How simple, I thought; how elegant. A young college student with a rash — how hard could the diagnosis be?
My latest installment of Notes from a Healer — In the Limelight — is now online, newly published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.
The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine is an online clearinghouse for manuscripts dealing with the humanities and medicine. Interested readers can access a list of editorial board members and regular contributors here.