2019 Hippocrates Health Professional Prize:
Winning Poets
Cranial Nerve Shadowbox
Inez Garzaniti Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Second Prize
The Thirteenth Floor
Stephen Harvey Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Third Prize
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Patient
Maria Ji Onehunga, New Zealand
Six Week Check
Emma Storr Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Winning Poems
First Prize
Commended Poems
Elizabeth Birchall Chipping Norton, Oxon, England - Heartburn
Richard Brostoff Belmont, MA, USA - The Patience Of Snow
Richard Morley Carpenter York, North Yorkshire, UK - A Curator's Eye
Iora Dawes Stafford, Staffordshire, England - What Stays
Andrew Dimitri St Pauls, New South Wales, Australia - Journey to the hospital
Neil Alexander Douglas London, England - He told me
Joseph Gascho Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA - Old Man with a Hemorrhagic Stroke
Stephen Harvey Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Last Rites in the Trauma Tower
Beda Higgins Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England – My Dad was a Doctor
Karen E Hill Bury, Lancashire, England - The Sanatorium
Sara Eira Margareta Johansson Goteborg, Sweden - Expert Advice on Psychotraumatology
Melinda Kallasmae Strathdale, Victoria, Australia - Alert, sometimes alarmed
Christopher Magoon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - A culture critic
David Camillus McCrory Belfast, County Antrim, N Ireland – Anglo-Irish Pathology, May 1981
Hessom Razavi Perth, Western Australia - There are cave dwellers here
Tamar Rubin Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Auntie Elinor
Joyce Schmid Palo Alto, California, USA - Don't Tell My Doctor
Joyce Schmid Palo Alto, California, USA - Inside the MRI
Penny Shutt Par, Cornwall, England - Ana
Penny Shutt Par, Cornwall, England - Auditory Hallucinations
Tricia Torrington Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England - Livedo Reticularis
Louise Warren London, England - The First Woman on the Moon