Friends: I am one of three judges for the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The prize has three streams, one for health providers, another for, let’s say, ‘regular’ people (poets like you!), and another for those under 18. If you are a health care person, or if you are a poet, consider submitting! Details are here. First prize in both the ‘open’ and health care categories is £1000. DEADLINE FEB 14! Last year a Canadian physician, Tamar Rubin, achieved third prize in the physician category. I happen to have read hordes of great poems by many Canadian poets that are health-themed over the years, and for their part, Canadian physician-poets are a bizarrely strong cohort in comparison to, say, America and the UK. We punch above our weight! Let’s go! Please spread the word, do submit.