Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)
Thoughts around embracing death and learning from the wisdom of age
Crumpled Sheets
A multi-sensory embodiment of depression
Fire and Snow
The early trauma of visiting the poet’s mother’s in hospital re-visited
Doubt
A young doctor on a ward feeling inadequate and overwhelmed despite his committment to the medical profession
Dear Diary
Prose in diary form – composite fictional account. based on observations of patients in an oncology clinic
Metamorphosis
Striving towards holism within medical education
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
Songs of Courage
Healing through music therapy inspires a student’s poem
The Meeting
How an isolated, shared experience, albeit brief – can forge a unique bond and impact on your life
A Little Boy, A Little Time
The heart-wrenching impact of encountering young children with life limiting AIDS/HIV upon the author
Hope
The determination of a mother to ensure her son’s survival following a motor-cycle accident
Healing power of prayer
The role of faith in well-being under multi-perspectives scrutiny
My mind is not my own
A visual and audio interpretation of the impact of a stroke on a particular patient based on his detailed embodied descriptions
Life… injecting it or sucking it away?
The struggle to break the cycle of addiction explored
Loss
The unexpected emotional impact of a family doctor’s concern for a man whose wife died of cancer
Flight
Humorous account of a daughter/carer leaving this role after much provocation
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
This is your Grandad
The death of a grandparent highlights tensions between bio-medical knowledges and personal loss.
How Am I?
Prose inspired by meeting a distraught, terminally-ill mother who had just given birth
The Ripple Effect
Conflicts and complexity of care – inspired by a mother’s personal experience
CANCER?
A medical student’s mixed response to his mother’s suspected cancer diagnosis
The Appearance of Disease
A student visualises patients from their medical notes pre-consultation
Anti Mnemonist
Three intersecting graphic perspectives based on living with dementia and the underlying creative process
Rescue
The initial disconnecting and isolating aspect of pain and illness – and relief when a web of support emerges
Alive
‘The miracle of life is not to live – but to be alive’: the doctor’s role in supporting patients to address self-depleting patterns
Sun-Spun
The poet observes a child with autism absorbed in play and feels privileged to be invited to join her world
A New Beginning
Birth and death, joy and grief – bound up in exceptional circumstances
Long Dark Tunnel
Image from the perspective of a elderly patient whose world is rapidly shrinking due to anxiety about her infirmity
Big Black Dogs
Metaphorical musing around depression as something which cannot be shaken off
The Struggle
The tension between the will to thrive and a body cumulatively challenged by ill-health
Abnormal
Concern for a young woman patient living with chronic pain and skin disfigurement – compounded by a detached parent
Pseudo Life
A carer places her considerable health issues at one remove despite her GP’s concerns
Life-Line
A GP provides timely support to a patient with addiction
The Future
An emergency hospitalization where the patient is unaware of gravity of her condition
A Real Person Too
A young addict unexpectedly finds understanding from the medical profession
Daytime Television
A stark domestic insight into the realities of supporting a loved one with acquired disability
Valerie
Narrative inspired by a profoundly disabled patient – insights around being a passive recipient of multiple interventions
Eat Less
The notion that obesity is a self-inflicted is scrutinized after a home visit.
There was a man…
Insights into the role of humour in clinical practice, and its relation to the trust placed in healthcare professionals