Luke Dittrich tells the story of a destruction that led to a revelation: the story of Patient H. M. - an experimental surgery his grandfather had performed in attempt to cure epilepsy, but instead deeply affected the patient’s memory. #story19 
There’s no shortage of people who have straddled the line between medical practice and research, Dittrich says. But it’s one thing to tell a distant story, and another to tell the story of your grandfather. #story19
He says writing the story of Patient H.M. was like orthopedic surgery on a bone that was broken a long time ago and never healed: it had to be reset, put back together to be more aligned with the truth. It was a brutal job with crude instruments (words). #STORY19
"Stories do heal, it’s just that sometimes they hurt like hell first," says Luke Dittrich. #story19
