Matt Morgan: Words matter

I’ve just returned from our annual family trip to the amazing Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, one of the world’s largest book events, nestled in the green of mid-Wales. The tradition started when my daughter became obsessed with Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo, but the march of time has morphed her tastes into young adult themes of love, sex, and murder. Just as traditional as the trip itself were the accompanying rain showers, prompting a dash to the undercover deckchairs where we ate and read, and I started writing this column. It was there that I realised—in medicine just as in literature—words matter.I was surrounded by words: words of hope for the future, pleas for help from war zones, words seeking understanding, and words that made people smile. These were written and spoken at more than 800 events in 11 days, by 700 people from Bonnie Taylor to Theresa May….
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