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