Patient Stories
Travelling in a Wheelchair: A patient’s story
Article originally published in the Hippocratic Post Wheelchair travel by land, sea and sky; easier would it be that a camel pass through a needle’s eye. The holiday companies cheerily name themselves ‘Accessible Travel’ and ‘Can Be Done’ to tempt the disabled...
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? by Elizabeth Hutton
Good old Freddie Mercury classic - 'hitting the nail on the head' brilliantly! The one sure thing in life is that we're all going to die - we're all headed in the same direction - and yet it's a subject most of us prefer not to think about or discuss. Having faced...
‘I’M STILL STANDING – (ME ‘N ELTON!) by Elizabeth Hutton
… And Breathing! Reasons to be cheerful – thanks to Derby Royal Hospital I finally was given the correct diagnosis and, importantly, excellent treatment from the team of Consultants in the Respiratory Clinic, which means my breathing is the best it’s ever been! After...
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE … (Apologies to ‘The Police’ and ‘Sting’) by
Ok – so, this is my first attempt at blogging! It will probably be best to report on my own experiences and progress with ABPA, and also to bring in accounts/ views of other sufferers of this condition and other types of Aspergillosis. The latter two will be sourced...
My Story: When I was dying….
I shouldn't imagine there are many people who are still here to be able to tell a tale with the above title! Background: For many years I suffered with periods of dreadful ‘flu-like symptoms, unable to stop coughing, night sweats and exhaustion – and was consistently...
Listen to 2015 Hippocrates Prize Open winners
The £5000 Hippocrates Open First Prize for Poetry and Medicine (hippocrates-poetry.org) for 2015 was awarded to poet Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather. The Hippocrates Prize is an annual award for...
Listen to Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry & Medicine 2015
Parisa Thepmankorn from Rockaway, New Jersey received the £500 2015 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for 'Intraocular Pressure'. The other shortlisted poets were Daniella Cugini from Warwick in England for 'the surgeon dissects his lover' and US poets Alex Greenberg from...
Listen to all the winning Hippocrates NHS poems
The Hippocrates £5000 NHS first prize (hippocrates-poetry.org) went to former counsellor Kate Compston from Cornwall for a poem about revealing the diagnosis of dementia. The Hippocrates Prize is an annual award for poetry and medicine with a closing date of 31st...
Panthera by Parthenia M. Hicks
I imagine your birthmyth: earth humid, steaming with gases, plasma rising, cells undivided,blood floating homeless.It was the first day, not the sixth, before darkness became night and night became ebony or jet.Your unformed jaguar-leopard presencehung like a...