{"id":204,"date":"2017-05-17T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=204"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:45","slug":"meet-dr-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/meet-dr-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doctor Dave by Rowan McCabe. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7ebUSPEDJc?start=11\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>This portrait of a North Shields GP is part of the Door to Door Poetry project in which McCabe knocks on doors seeking (free) poetry commissions. Dave Tomson was one of his early subjects. North Shields, and its bigger sister South Shields, sit on opposite sides of the mouth of the River Tyne, east of Newcastle upon Tyne. Once based on fishing, North Shields grew and became a substantial industrial centre through shipbuilding and coal mining, but in recent decades these have died back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a doctor in North Shields<br \/>\nwho treats his patients like his equals<br \/>\nand preaches power to the people,<br \/>\nhis name is Doctor Dave.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the anti-establishment GP,<br \/>\nthe healthcare revolutionary,<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rowan McCabe is a performance poet and comedian. The content of his door to door poems comes from their subjects. Tomson is portrayed in a very different way from Eugene Smith&#8217;s photostory of Ernest Ceriani, or John Berger&#8217;s account of John Sassall (see More Like This, below), which describe caring, at times fretful, concern. Here Tomson is apparently accepting of his patients&#8217; bad, even dangerous habits, though hopefully not so far as drinking bleach. But there are hints that this is to win their trust, not to neglect them. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0515yf4\/player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC interview that includes this poem<\/a> (poem at 2.59)<\/li>\n<li>Full text of this poem, plus &#8216;I want to help raise a cool girl&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkpantry.com\/inky-interview-exclusive-door-to-door-poet-rowan-mccabe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beneath this interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rowanthepoet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website of Rowan McCabe<\/a>, Geordie Cultural Ambassador. Watch the video about the project there.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/doortodoorpoetry.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">door to door poetry project<\/a> site<\/li>\n<li>See Rowan McCabe at the Edinburgh Fringe, <em>5th-27th August, 4-5pm @ Banshee Labyrinth, every day except Thursdays<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Dave by Rowan McCabe. Commentary This portrait of a North Shields GP is part of the Door to Door Poetry project in which McCabe knocks on doors seeking (free) poetry commissions. Dave Tomson was one of his early subjects. North Shields, and its bigger sister South Shields, sit on opposite sides of the mouth <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/meet-dr-dave\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28,14],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","tag-audio","tag-poetry"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":9},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}