The moral injury of Covid

Im so glad that the moral injury of managing covid is at last being mentioned.1I tried to highlight this as upcoming – around ventilators – way back in April 2020. And suggested some specific ways forward, based on my experience leading the first explicit rationing in the NHS.2 Of course its not just the public …

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Selected Publications / Performances / Sound pieces / Lectures:

Click links to get the actual words. Audio being added as I canMany of my more visual art pieces include my words – but if its mainly visual, it’s included in the art section Head, shoulders, knees and toes … and eyes and ears and mouth and noseSecond PRIZE winner for KCL/RNIB creative writing competition …

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My opening presentation for Deli social model festival

November 2023 [heres the text of my opening presentation -images to be added soon] Welcome welcome!thank you for coming along to the social model and more festival with theatre deli Im caroline mawerthe festival curatorim a skinny white woman, age 60, with short brown hair and big purple glasses. im she/ her. In this first, opening …

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A woman’s right to easily accessible holistic contraceptive services – as well as a right to choose

I personally know just how dangerous and humiliating illegal abortions were here in the UK.(1) See ‘Needs Must’. Kansans clearly understand that overturning Roe v Wade simply bans safe abortions – rather than stopping the need for abortion.(2) This issue is much more than a chance for celebrities to speak out.(3) Across the UK, women are …

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Needs Must

white text: abortion is healthcare not a crime, over a picture of a woman in a blue short sleeve shirt standing in front of railings and mural in a street

I wrote this for an American publication just as the anti-abortionists started getting really active. The title was changed to: Desperate Measures. The article was picked up by the Kevin MD blog. I asked to be anonymous simply to underline the deadly dangers clinicians face in the US if they take part in abortions but unfortunately …

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Real women

I was a medical student the first time I saw a baby born. I’d been told about all the folding and unfolding and twisting and turning a baby does to get out of its mother. The reality is much more exciting.A tuft of hair emerges and retracts, and then emerges some more, to slowly become the head …

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