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

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