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EXTRA – Soldier, Doctor, Poet.
Manage episode 438352119 series 32866
Major General Tim Hodgetts served 41 years as an Army doctor, rising to become Surgeon General.
He’s lived through gunfire and explosions while trying to save lives, from Germany via Northern Ireland, to Afghanistan.
Throughout much of that time he also wrote poems as a way to help him process those experiences, but now he’s published some of them in an anthology, “Frontlines and Lifelines”
Major General Hodgetts talks to Kate Gerbeau about his poems, the events that inspired them, and his contributions to revolutionising military medicine.
889 episodes
Manage episode 438352119 series 32866
Major General Tim Hodgetts served 41 years as an Army doctor, rising to become Surgeon General.
He’s lived through gunfire and explosions while trying to save lives, from Germany via Northern Ireland, to Afghanistan.
Throughout much of that time he also wrote poems as a way to help him process those experiences, but now he’s published some of them in an anthology, “Frontlines and Lifelines”
Major General Hodgetts talks to Kate Gerbeau about his poems, the events that inspired them, and his contributions to revolutionising military medicine.
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