For some further examples of patient perspectives on
medicine within the 2012 Hippocrates Symposia and Awards:
Clare Wilmot was a symposium speaker on her experience
of the impact of poetry on her own convalescence from leukaemia.
In the 2012 awards:
- the heart patient with frightening arrhythmia
awaiting catheter relief by Connie Levesque, or with risk of sudden
cardiac death syndrome, depending on high tech implantable cardiac
defibrillator for recurrent salvation (anticipating the footballer Fabrice
Muamba's experience), and Claudia Daventry on a patient's misread signs
from the heart
- several describe the friend or relative knowing not
enough or too muc
- 3rd person narratives eg on stress disorders by
Elizabeth Anne Gleeson
- Amanda Carver and Alex Josephy on patient angst or
relief linked to test results
- Rafael Campo on experience or concern re
blood-borne disease/HIV
- Carol Whitfield on co-morbidity of age
- Frances-Anne King's oblique reference to a detail of
life with cancer treatment
- Neil Ferguson on the day to day experience of the
patient's waits
- Andy Jackson on the volunteer - as much a debt
owed to patients as the healthy, or perhaps in this case the bone marrow
transplant donor
The
full 46 awarded and commended entries have been published in the 2012 Hippocrates Awards Anthology - available for online order.
The Hippocrates Prize 2012. The winning and commended
poems.
Selected by judges Professor Rod Flower FRS, Marilyn
Hacker and Martha Kearney.
Edited by Michael Hulse and Donald Singer.
Hippocrates Press, London, 2012. ISBN
978-0-9572571-0-8
