The judges have announced winning and commended poems in the Open
International and NHS categories of the 2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and
Medicine at an
awards ceremony in London on Friday 15th April.
The Open International First Prize
went to Owen Lewis, a clinical psychiatry professor at Columbia University, New
York City and Visiting Professor at Einstein Medical College. About what
inspired his winning poem At Tribeca’s Edge, he said: "My
students at Columbia, College of Physicians and Surgeons, were the inspiration
for this poem.
"I sometimes teach a section of
Foundations of Clinical Medicine, a course that extends over their first three
semesters. Coming to the end of our time together, I felt overwhelmed
considering all they had yet to learn, hoping they would hold onto their
optimism and idealism, and humbled by what I had contributed. The poem is
dedicated to them.”
The NHS First Prize went to Denise Bundred from Camberley in England. She trained as a paediatrician in Cape Town and worked as a paediatric cardiologist in Liverpool.
About her winning poem she said:
"A Cardiologist Seeks Certainty is an attempt to capture the ache
of anxiety as I struggled to define a complex problem in the chambers and
vessels of a baby’s heart, often with the pressing need for urgent surgery.”
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