Boxed-in
The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule
From a Distance
The tight-rope of students’ maintaining wellbeing and mental health across the Pandemic
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
When Breath Becomes Air
A doctor’s transition to becoming a patient
Between the Cracks
A doctor’s primary duty is patient care; however, what about their own well-being?
Snakes in the heart
Artist coming to terms with diabetes and starting to trust her body again after sense of betrayal
Heart Strings
Employing skills in embroidery and applique to consider the complexities of living with dyslexia
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
Open Your Eyes – Depression in Medical Students
Challenging misconceptions around medical health issues in medical education, a personal insight conveyed through film and text
Stress in Medical Practice
Opening up conversations about stress in medical practice
Depression
A personal account of depression – family and peer response and stigma around revealing mental health issues
Feeble, Precarious, Existence
A doctor’s perspective whilst dying of heart disease – empty bed and candles
Contact
Dark and light – the complexities of consultations stripped bare
My Mother: The Stranger
The poet accompanies his mother through acute clinical depression
Sleepless
Sleep patterns following life’s journey, lyrical literary perspectives and legacy of broken sleep