We asked you to send us your best song, poem, painting, video, sculpture, short story or photo on the theme of 鈥渕odern medicine and why it matters鈥�. The deadline for entries is 5 January 2014, so if you鈥檙e planning to enter, make sure you do so soon!
Find out about the great prize and how to enter.
The competition was inspired by the Wellcome Trust鈥檚 exhibition .
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If you鈥檙e still in need of inspiration, take a look at this selection of entries that we鈥檝e already received. These are not winners 鈥� not yet anyway. They鈥檒l be judged with all other entries once the competition has closed.
Hartsecret by Marianne Breugelmans
Scar by Shelley Stocken
I鈥檝e a mark upon my torso
Like a zipper, only more so.
It commences at my suprasternal dent;
Then continues down my centre,
Like a stocking seam is meant to,
Though its terminus is very slightly bent.
When I got it, I was nascent.
Had my doctors been complacent,
My life might have been as fleeting as a fart.
But persistent cyanosis
Meant a rapid diagnosis
Of a blocked pulmonary valve inside my heart.
Quite a fiddly operation
Soon restored my respiration;
My complexion turned a healthy baby pink.
Now I鈥檓 fixed, though I was broken;
And I bear a fleshy token
Of my short post-natal visit to the brink.
People might think I鈥檓 ill-fated
Or in some way mutilated
Or I don鈥檛 know when they鈥檙e trying not to stare.
But when I look, all I see,
Is just the provenance of me
And the nicest thing that I could ever wear.