Denise Bundred, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist. You filled a heart with wax to model the aortic valve in glass with artery ascending....

Denise Bundred, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist. I spread cold gel on a newborn chest rest the probe on creamy skin, angle between...

Wendy French, Family Therapist – NHS psychiatric hospital and Head Teacher – Psychiatric hospital NHS school. Blu-tacked against the...

Chris Woods, GP. The doctor shines a light into eyes and skull. Has she found me in there? “Show me your teeth, please” I manage half a...

Chris Woods, GP. He doesn’t look too good, suit not as snappy. His tie’s a bit frayed. He doesn’t look happy. Domestic difficulties,...

Amanda Walsh, Nurse A soft knuckled tap, tap, tap on the office door. The sound jolts my body awake, my sleep arrested, worse somehow for...

Emma Storr, GP I wake you. Unpeel your clothes to hold you naked in my hands. You look surprised at being new. I murmur nonsense while I...

Emma Storr, GP I want to prescribe panaceas for teetering marriages, for kids that disappoint. I want to find spells in my pharmacopoeia...

Beda Higgins, Nurse One wayward cell suggests a mutiny, before you know it, they are telling you what will happen, and that it won’t go...

'In the dayroom mouths open and close'

Giles Dawnay, GP trainee That’s just not my mum, he whispers, soft dark eyes looking ahead and behind into another time and space....