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.
Select the initial letter of the poem or story:
Top 35 most requested
- Mrs Baxter's Blocked Ears
- Pleurisy - What a Pain!
- Getting Your Ears Syringed
- Starting your Periods
- You're Feeling Sad? ... You're Not Alone
- Ditch Your Itchy Bottom
- Treating Anal Fissures
- Breaking a Bone
- When the Chips Are Down
- Mollie and Michael - Mole Detectives
- Wandering Hand Disease
- Giving Up Smoking
- Keep Taking the Pills
- No Ifs, No Buts, No Maybes - It's Scabies
- Now Wash Your Hands!
- Having an Angiogram
- Mumps Can Be a Pain in the Neck
- Vertigo - a Distressing Wait
- Gerald's Gout
- Having a Blood Test
- Abnormal
- Born to Binge
- Nice and Naughty
- Where Did My Energy Go?
- Beating Shingles
- Walking Back to Happiness
- Skin Flakes Keep Falling From Your Head, They Keep Falling
- Just Stop
- Quit Before It's Too Late
- The ENT Doctor's Song
- Dull Days
- Meet the Asthma Nurse
- A Pain in the Heart
- You are What you Eat
- Be Safe in the Sun
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Health Matters is an innovative new book about lifestyle, disease risks, diseases and treatments covering a vast range of subjects from period pains to heart attacks; spots to skin cancer; itchy bums to sore heads; and big ears to big bellies.
The book includes absorbing and entertaining stories informed by personal experiences of real patients and backed up by ready reference to the latest clinical evidence - all reviewed by UK health professionals.



