Over the past week, we have been posting the highly commended entries in our writing competition, and have now reached our final five.
As already said, we were blown away by both the number and quality of the entries we received. Our judges had an incredibly difficult time trying to choose the winners and there was some fierce debate amongst us all.
We will update this page as we countdown our top five entries.
Happy reading!
1st place
K’s birthday cake – Dr Paul O’Reilly
2nd place
Sam’s plans – Dr Fatima Anwar
3rd place
‘I want to be white’ – Dr Seema Pattni
4th place
A lesson in humanity – Dr Edoardo Cervoni
5th place
‘Go back to Syria’ – Dr Seema Haider
Highly commended: The big ideas
Desperate times call for annual patient appraisals – Dr Anya Heywood
Scrap waiting rooms for calm spaces – Dr Saba Shah
Highly commended: Gut feelings
Unfulfilled hope: a memorable patient – Dr Peter Nutley
A sixth sense – Dr SD
Highly commended: The patient that taught me
It’s not deep – Dr Toni Munno
The ‘clinic clichés’ that stop us in our tracks – Dr Amrit Kaur Khara
The flicker: one more day – Dr NNV
