Winning poem included in NHS anthology
Delighted to hear that the winning poem from the Poems for Doctors 2019 online slam, Flexor Digitorum by Rumaisa Zubairi has been accepted for publication in the new NHS anthology These Are the Hands. You can listen to Rumaisa reading the poem on Soundcloud. The title...Video jukebox
Line testing my new ‘Poems for Doctors’ fully interactive touchscreen video juke-box in the office today. It works! Coming soon with 28 current video readings at SPL in Edinburgh, St Andrews, and possibly elsewhere. I put speakers on for this test, usually the kiosk...
The Unprofessionals
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here.Season 4: poem 7GP and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine at the University of Dundee, Dr Jennifer Kennedy reads The Unprofessionals by U. A. Fanthorpe....
From Cumha Chaluim Iain MhicGill-Eain
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here.Season 4 : poem 6Retired GP and Honorary Professor of General Practice at the University of Edinburgh Prof John Gillies reads From Cumha Chaluim Iain MhicGil-Eain by...
from Ultrasound
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here.Season 4 : poem 5Consultant Radiologist and Year 2 Lead at the University of Aberdeen Medical School Prof Alan Denison reads from Ultrasound by Kathleen Jamie. from...
The First Death
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here. Season 4 : poem 4 Dr Ourania Varsou, Lecturer in Anatomy at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, reads The First Death by Andrea Wershof Schwartz....
The Precious 10 Minutes
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here.Season 4 : poem 3Prof Rona Patey, Consultant Anaesthetist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Medical Education Lead at the University of Aberdeen reads The Precious 10...
Talking to the Family
This poem is part of the Poems for doctors project. You can find out more about the project here.Season 4 : poem 2Dr Lynn Urquhart, Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine Consultant at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, reads Talking to the Family by John Stone Talking to...
The Eye Chart
I’m delighted to launch Season 4 of Poems for Doctors online. For this season I’ve been out and about, filming readers from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and Aberdeen. I hope that, over the next few weeks, you’ll enjoy listening to them as much as I...
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