Patient’s personal perspective packs a punch

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Patient’s personal perspective packs a punch

Greg Judkins
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She longs for the comforting sound of wind in the pines by the beach, wind rattling the roof [Image: Stephen Andrews on Unsplash]

Greg Judkins explores the emotions and thoughts of a patient (and poet) who is in hospital and facing a poor diagnosis

Sarah Broom was emerging as a talented poet and literary academic when she was diagnosed with an incurable cancer during her third pregnancy. Her poem