Thursday 4 April 2019

Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards

Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards An impassioned poem defending her profession thrust Case into the public eye. With a memoir about the joy and pain of the job out soon, she talks about how it continues to inspire her

Not so long ago, first-person accounts of what goes on in the operating theatre or the emergency ward – and in the hearts and minds of those who work there – were hard to find. Author William Boyd said recently that when writing his novel about a surgeon, The Blue Afternoon, some years ago, he failed to unearth any descriptions of surgery by surgeons at all. But no more. The medical memoir has become a publishing phenomenon. The Guardian

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