2018 Hippocrates Prize
Health Professional Awards
Winning Poems
First Prize
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
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, Northern 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