Posts in the Children category:

children – in health and in illness – have been part of life forever, and loom large in almost all my writing

Children, Medicine, Memoir, Patients

My final exam – and my first child

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       Another extract from my memoir – meeting my first child patient in my Finals  I’ve distinguished myself through four medical school years by never setting foot inside Barts Children’s Unit. At twenty-six years old, the very notion of sick children sends shivers through me, chilled a few more degrees by Sister Kenton’s […]

Arts in Medicine, Children, Medicine, Memoir, Patients

My memoir

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I’m delighted to say my medical memoir has just been released by Wising Up Press http://universaltable.org/librarynonfiction/journeysthousandheroes.html Bookstore: http://universaltable.org/bookstore.html It is available from their bookstore (at a 25% discount) for $15 US, but after July 16 it will be on Amazon and other internet outlets at the standard price of $20 Journeys with a Thousand Heroes: A […]

Art, Article, Children, Health, Medicine, Memoir, Patients, Stories, Writing

First Blood, Hektoen, 2016

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First Blood Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, 1970 I’m astounded I’ve landed one of the coveted G.O.S. senior resident jobs: the academic nature of the place immediately daunts me. Everyone bows down to its status as the foremost pediatric research hospital in Europe, perhaps the world, the faculty all confining their work to one or […]

Blog, Childhood, Children, Journeys, Letters, Loss, Memoir, School, Writing

Boarding School

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Writing to myself as a young boy has me revisiting long-forgotten memories. So I’ve decided to borrow another bit from my memoir to recall the awful day I was shipped off to boarding school at aged twelve – a rite of passage for many middle-class English boys. I’ll leave you to judge what lasting effects […]

Art, Children, Creativity, Journeys, Loss, Medicine, Memoir, Patients, Writing

Journeys with a Thousand Heroes

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Journeys with a Thousand Heroes Introduction to my Memoir It was my mother’s precipitate death from cancer that lit the spark for my life caring for children with cancer. They in turn became my mentors and companions on my journey to reclaim—as did Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz—my full intelligence, heart, and home. The […]