Denise Bundred - NHS winner: 2016 Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize

Описание: 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 2016 (http://hippocrates-poetry.org).
The 2016 Hippocrates 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."
All winning and commended poems are published in the 2016 HIppocrates Prize Anthology available to order online from http://hippocrates-poetry.org.