3rd prize winner – Docs4NHS Essay Competition 2021
Critical but Stable: A reflection on COVID19 telecommunciations, visiting restrictions and etymological contradictions. 3rd prize for Doctors for the NHS essay competition 2021.
Category Medical Humanities
Daily Service 11 Feb 2022 – The Struggle Within Us
Battle imagery in medicine and my Mum's experience with breast cancer in her book Cancer and the Bronze Serpent
Daily Service 13 Dec 2021 – Glimpsing Jesus
#Clapforcarers, COVID19 pandemic and vaccination inequality
Spice – The Intima
Spice: street drug, melange, Dune and Nirvana?
PRN Films – Behind the Mask
Dr Paul Trotman's hard-hitting documentary about the COVID19 pandemic from the people who were at the frontline.
Daily Service 11Oct 2021 – Grief
Good morning and welcome to the Daily Service with me, Mark Tan. As an intensive care doctor, I have witnessed many deaths, and as a result, have shared in, however small a part, the initially grieving process of many…
Painting an ICU – Hektoen International
“This was the art of medicine. The clinical examinations were my brushes, investigations were my paints, and the history became my scene, environment and lighting. I became an impressionist.” Claude Monet’s development of impressionism formed my inspiration for this piece…
A Letter to Lydia
In a letter written to his daughter Lydia, who was born during the pandemic, intensive care doctor Mark Tan describes the last 12 months working on the front line alongside colleagues, patients and families who have had to endure and sacrifice so much.
Telephone Lament for Coronavirus
The thoughts and fears behind the telephone family updates during the COVID19 pandemic framed within Stevie Wonder’s hit song “I just called, to say I love you”
BBC Radio 4 Pick of the week, Apr 2020
