SINGAPORE – For a few days in February, about 200 doctors, nurses, medical students, hospice staff and patients in Singapore read and wrote poems.
In a series of workshops, they and other healthcare workers reflected on poems that grappled with illness and mortality. Inspired by their own work and lives, they penned down their thoughts in free verse, even though some said they did not enjoy the literature classes they took decades ago in school.
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