The heart that beats

Authors

  • Kashvi Gupta Kasturba Medical College Mangalore

Keywords:

Heart, Narrative medicine, Transplantation

Abstract

An intern narrates her encounter with a 19 year old girl recently diagnosed with giant cell myocarditis and shortlisted for a heart transplant. Inspired by the young girl’s eagerness to live despite the looming difficulties inherent in the future of a transplant recipient, she reflects on her own life and comes to an understanding of why heart transplant surgery, despite making people dependent on life-long medication, also, more importantly, gives them another chance at life.

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Author Biography

Kashvi Gupta, Kasturba Medical College Mangalore

Intern

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Published

2017-03-06

How to Cite

Gupta, K. (2017). The heart that beats. Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 4, 19–21. Retrieved from https://rhime.in/ojs/index.php/rhime/article/view/90

Issue

Section

Narrative Medicine