‘Learn to love the broken thing’: A GP poet reminds us of medicine’s humanity

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‘Learn to love the broken thing’: A GP poet reminds us of medicine’s humanity

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Lucy O'Hagan

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We are good at loving broken things we can fix but, when we have no medicine or the wounds are too big, we sometimes want to turn away

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Lucy O’Hagan finds a book that offers solace, grace and hope within its pages

If you are a reader of New Zealand Doctor|Rata Aotearoa, I hope you are also a reader of poet, writer and GP, Glenn Colquhoun. His book Being God is a