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International initiative bringing poetry & medicine into conversation since 2009 #HippocratesPrize2025 📚⚕️

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Joined December 2009
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🖋️ We are particularly proud of this anthology and we want to personally thank all the poems who have agreed to house their beautiful works in this collection. 🌠 From the entire team, we wish you happy holidays, a lot of love, friendship and rest. 📖And lots of reading! 😉
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🥉One of the 3rd prices in the Health Professional category was the amazing piece by Neil Deasy 'The London at Night' (@DeasyNeil ) #HippocratesPrize2025
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‼️🏆 We are absolutely delighted to let you know that the official announcement and awards ceremony for this year's winners of the #HippocratesPoetry prize will take place on the 19th of July, at 14:00h (UTC Time) !!!
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🏥El otro día nuestra IP (Luz Mar González Arias) participó en una mesa redonda organizada por el @HUCA_Asturias donde varios especialistas y alumnado conversaron sobre el futuro de la #medicina.
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🎓 El domingo 22 de junio tendremos una colaboración muy especial con la @UniOviedo en el marco de #FeLiX, en Gijón/Xixón. 🧵Abrimos hilo con los detalles de esta cita con las #HumanidadesMédicas: 👇
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The Hippocrates Initiative retweeted
‼️Dear participants, find here a little update about the #HippocratesPoetryPrize2025. 📨 We will update you very soon about the new timeline. 🫂We thank you for your patience and understanding and wish you the best of luck!
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📸 Some stills from this year's #HEALSeminar ! We are very grateful for all the contributions and enthusiasm shown by the presenters and the audience.
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‼️We are absolutely delighted to announce the #CFP for our group's seminar this year "Poetics of (Self)Extinction: Loss and Disappearance from the Perspective of the #MedicalHumanities" 📩You can send us your #abstracts up until the 5th of March! 👇Here is all the information!
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🇨🇦Friends: I am one of three judges for the £1000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Details are here: hippocrates-poetry.org/enter…... Let's go! Please RT at will, spread the word, do submit. @HippocratesInit
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Congratulations to mentee Judith Wozniak, former winner of @HippocratesInit prize, who will be launching her third collection this week with Vole Books dempseyandwindle.com/judithw… All proceeds to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
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Very proud to have my commended poem ‘What Doctors Said To Me’ included in the #HippocratesPrize anthology. I wrote it for all women whose pain is minimised. #Pain #Endometriosis #MedicalMisogyny @HippocratesInit #poetrytwitter
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Lining up some wonderful reading treats for this eve, also including some anthologies I’m delighted to have pieces in! Thanks to @PoetryBookSoc @roguestrands @nationalflashfd @HippocratesInit @Nell_Nelson @peepaltreepress @dedaluspress
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🏆 Hoy nos alegra traeros el poema ganador de la categoría de #jóvenespoetas del premio #HippocratesPrize (@HippocratesInit ), 'Meditaciones en el párking de la consulta de cirugía externa de Fort Wayne', escrito por Emily Pickering.
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Many thanks @HippocratesInit Here’s a link to me reading the poem: m.youtube.com/channel/UCZ707…
📚 After last week's symposium we are still wonderstruck by the awarded poems that were submitted this year, so we have decided to share some with you! 🏆The 1st prize for the #HealthProfessional category was for 'Non-essential poem' by @VicHusband .
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Proud to represent @MacMedWRC and @PalimpsestPress at @HEALMedEd / @HippocratesInit Invited reading of The Suspect We to happen at 4 pm, Centro de Servicios Universitarios de Avilés
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⏰The clock is ticking as we get ready for the XI International Symposium on #Poetry and #Medicine that #HEAL is organizing together with the #HippocratesInitiative 🗓️May 23rd and 24th, 2024 📍CSU Avilés (University of Oviedo).
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🗞️¡Estamos tan emocionad@s con el simposio de poesía y medicina que nuestra IP fue a @lanuevaespana a contarles todo lo que nos traemos entre manos! 💻lne.es/aviles/2024/05/18/avi… @HippocratesInit
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Michael Hulse, Shane Neilson, Alan Bleakley and many others - in Avilés this May 🙏 #poetrytwitter
📢 Attention #poetry and #medical community! 📢 🌟 We are thrilled to announce the provisional program for the XI International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine! 🌟 📅 Date: May 23rd and 24th, 2024 📍 Location: CSU Avilés (University of Oviedo)
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