Poems and Stories

We currently have 144 poems and stories.

The idea behind our poems and stories is to help children (and adults) understand medical conditions. We have invited people to use their creative writing skills to get health messages across clearly in attractive and exciting ways that sufferers, parents or friends will enjoy reading.

If you are interested in writing something for publication on Patient UK click here for more information.

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Top 35 most requested

1. Mrs Baxter's Blocked Ears
2. Pleurisy - What a Pain!
3. Getting Your Ears Syringed
4. Starting your Periods
5. You're Feeling Sad? ... You're Not Alone
6. Ditch Your Itchy Bottom
7. Treating Anal Fissures
8. Breaking a Bone
9. When the Chips Are Down
10. Mollie and Michael - Mole Detectives
11. Wandering Hand Disease
12. Giving Up Smoking
13. Keep Taking the Pills
14. No Ifs, No Buts, No Maybes - It's Scabies
15. Now Wash Your Hands!
16. Having an Angiogram
17. Mumps Can Be a Pain in the Neck
18. Vertigo - a Distressing Wait
19. Gerald's Gout
20. Having a Blood Test
21. Abnormal
22. Born to Binge
23. Nice and Naughty
24. Where Did My Energy Go?
25. Beating Shingles
26. Walking Back to Happiness
27. Skin Flakes Keep Falling From Your Head, They Keep Falling
28. Just Stop
29. Quit Before It's Too Late
30. The ENT Doctor's Song
31. Dull Days
32. Meet the Asthma Nurse
33. A Pain in the Heart
34. You are What you Eat
35. Be Safe in the Sun