News Brief: Friday, December 23, 2024

Thank you to everyone who participated in the International Day of Medical Physics Poem Competition this year! We received 9 inspiring entries that celebrated the field of medical physics.

We are excited to announce the winners of this year’s competition, as announced during the AGM. Each of the following winners will receive a pair of MPWB socks as a token of our appreciation for their outstanding submissions:

• Malamati Gkaravela
• Alberto Pérez Rozos
• Andrew Zwaniga

Congratulations to the winners! Your contributions have highlighted the beauty and impact of medical physics in a unique and artistic way.

Stay tuned for more events and opportunities to engage with the medical physics community!

Thoughts under the beam

Inside the treatment room, there is much light

It feels so cold, even though it is bright

A few sessions and you will be all right

Many have passed, but you still wonder why

Another prescription, couple of "Grays"

Then you will feel better, if that is true

You would be grateful, I know that for sure

Already a month away from your home

It must be hard going through it alone

Memories of a life simple, yet sweet

You could do anything to relive it

Another day, getting closer to death

Missing your dear ones, but still hanging on

Guess this may be it; where everything ends

Malamati Gk.

Precise beams align,

Healing depths unseen by eyes—

Physics saves the soul.

Beams of hope unite,

Physics leads a joyful fight,

Love and life take flight.

Best regards,

Alberto Pérez Rozos

Cascade Aid

The emptiness

In my inner orbit

What lived there just

To my unstable core did lust.

I relaxed

A cascade stacked

And my clouded cover

Left my sphere like thunder.

The nanometer

Gave my effect a theatre

To stage my damage

And the cancer manage.

To deliver

The killing dose

I must on DNA close

Or my electrons wither:

So give me transport

Thru the nuclear port

Or on the membrane

Plaster me plain.

Sincerely,

The MPWB Team

MPWBs vision is a world with access to effective and safe applications of physics and technology in medicine. Our mission is to support activities which will yield effective and safe use of physics and technologies in medicine through advising, training, demonstrating, and/or participating in medical physics-related activities, especially in low to middle income countries. Please visit our website www.mpwb.org for more details.