Hi, Roy welcome to the site. I’m an ex nurse and did my training in 1962 when I think we cared more for the patients that is done today. Had many a bad word with a ward nurse when my brother was in hospital. Finished up bringing him home to look after him with my wife, also a retired nurse.

Your sample poem added a little more knowledge to my old brain. Didn’t know about the old X-ray films.

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Thank you Ann. One of the benefits of being a middle-aged occasional radio 4 listener is hearing programes which give me ideas like this.

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Hi Roy - welcome to WOL. Good poem - really interested in the explanation too - I didn't know that - what a great idea for a poem!

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Thank you for your welcome Greg. Hope to meet up, maybe with Chuck Berry and Carol Ann Duffy in a bar during the Olympics...

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Welcome to Write Out Loud, Roy. Good to meet you at the Troubadour - and good to see you here! Greg

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