More good news: I’ve been named in the Priestley Prize, English Studies in Canada‘s award for ‘best’ essay published in the previous year’s issues. The essay brings forward Keats’ Negative Capability and Bayes’ Theorem to demonstrate how poetry can assist medical students to tolerate diagnostic ambiguity. That the judges specifically identify the “clear, actionable, and tangible social outcomes” that might come with broader poetic reasoning in medicine made me wonder if my dream might actually come true – a lyrical medicine brought into being in Canada.