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Poetry and medicine
Inaugural 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine: NHS 3rd Prize

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.2010.114181

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    Time to Get Ready

    Take off that hair;

    take off that self-assured air;

    take out those teeth;

    take that spring from your step and replace it

    with a hesitant shuffle.

    Take the fresh whites of your eyes

    and smudge them yellow. …

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    • Linked articles 114173, 114199, 114207, 114215, 114165.

    • Funding Supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and the Wellcome Trust.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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