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BMA writing competition 2020 opens for entries
‘Sorry’ is the theme of the newly announced BMA writing competition.
News
Friday 8 November 2019
Dousing the flames – the BMA writing competition winning entry
‘Sorry’ may often be the hardest word to find, but there was no shortage of entries to this year’s BMA writing competition
The Doctor
Friday 12 June 2020
BMA writing competition: My heart breaks too
Words were all she had, but words would never be enough. In the first of two runners-up entries from the BMA writing competition, Revati Naran recalls her emotions as she conveyed some devastating news
The Doctor
Tuesday 13 October 2020
BMA writing competition: That sorry was meant for you
Alice Bell still feels haunted by an apology she feels she should have made to a patient
The Doctor
Wednesday 14 October 2020
I cried in the car today. This is why
The ‘monstrous unfairness’ of a life cut short by a genetic condition led GP Gyda Meeten, the winner of this year’s BMA writing competition, to write this moving account
Opinion
Tuesday 20 October 2020
When the lights go out
A story of grief and simple kindness by Louise Wiseman, highly commended in the BMA writing competition
Monday 18 January 2021