Deep Cleanse
A clinical conversation with positive impact
Dear Diary
Prose in diary form – composite fictional account. based on observations of patients in an oncology clinic
Happy Birthday Helen
Considering the shortened life of the author’s elder sister
Attention: This Building is Unsafe and Likely to Collapse
A daughter shares how her mother handled terminal lung disease both through writing poetry and publishing practical ideas to support family and friends through a cancer diagnosis
How Am I?
Prose inspired by meeting a distraught, terminally-ill mother who had just given birth
CANCER?
A medical student’s mixed response to his mother’s suspected cancer diagnosis
Art in Medicine
The role of portraiture within healing.
An Excerpt From The Diary Of A Patient
Personal account of patient as undisclosed medic hearing her devastating diagnosis unwittingly revealed in clinical shorthand
False Hope
The complexities of diagnosis and prognosis following a sudden bereavement
Some Kind of Miracle
Narrative from the perspective of a child about her terminally-ill mother coming home from hospital for Xmas, then remaining in remission for several years
The Truth
After visiting a children’s cancer-ward in Malaysia – the author speculates about ‘the gateway between life and death’
Paranoia
Figures carrying ‘secret’ health issues
Bodies
A powerful poem around survival inspired by a prisoner of war in Burma who now finds himself dying from cancer as was the case for his recently and abruptly deceased wife