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This is your Grandad

Anonymous
Prose

The death of a grandparent highlights tensions between bio-medical knowledges and personal loss.

Big Black Dogs

Denise Gomez
Poetry

Metaphorical musing around depression as something which cannot be shaken off

A Real Person Too

Edward Toll
Poetry

A young addict unexpectedly finds understanding from the medical profession

Desert Rose

Ruramayi Rukuni
Poetry

An encounter with a young girl in Zimbabwe is pivotal in this poet’s choice of medicine as a career

Feeble, Precarious, Existence

E Nyeko
Painting

A doctor’s perspective whilst dying of heart disease – empty bed and candles

Rabbit

Miranda Whinney
Drawing

Losing the sense of time passing through drawing

Chasing the Bismarck

Richard Pellatt
Prose

A narrative inspired by a sailor-patient’s adventures: then creative writing in medicine under scrutiny

Neglect

Rachel Gale
Drawing

A visual interpretation of a patient’s physical and psychological state post-stroke

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