Humanities resources to support healthcare professionals and patients
What the doctor said: Raymond Carver ‘He said it doesn’t look good He said in fact it looks real bad he said I counted thirty-two of them in one lung before I quit counting them I said I’m glad I wouldn’t want to know about any more there being there than that….’ Read the full Read More …
It was as the snow started falling that she blurted it out not meant for the kids, not meant for here, for the snowwoman with her pink hat and old carrot nose, And once it was out she wished she could call it back in, like a dog you could whistle to, but it wouldn’t, Read More …
Doctor Dave by Rowan McCabe. Commentary This portrait of a North Shields GP is part of the Door to Door Poetry project in which McCabe knocks on doors seeking (free) poetry commissions. Dave Tomson was one of his early subjects. North Shields, and its bigger sister South Shields, sit on opposite sides of the mouth Read More …
from Ward 64, by Sarah Broom. there is poetry all over the walls of oncology and I want to get out Extract from Ward 64. Read the whole poem (Scottish Poetry Library website) Commentary Sarah Broom was a New Zealand poet who found she had lung cancer when pregnant with her third child in 2008. Read More …
On working in the NHS as a nurse, Molly Case. Commentary Molly Case was a student nurse when she recorded this, but before that, already a poet and performer. Here she was invited to speak at the RCN annual meeting. There is an alternative YouTube video of the same piece set in hospital. Further info Read More …