Paediatric Dr at St Jude’s Hospital | Starlight Ward. The smallest patients often carry the greatest courage. @GuardF0rLife is my calm in the chaos. 🐻☀️

Starlight Ward — St Jude’s
Joined May 2025
Paediatrics is 10% medicine and 90% stickers… because sometimes the bravest kids just need a little sparkle to match their strength. 💛✨ • N(S)FW • Straight • Single Ship • Please like and/or repost, thank you 🙏
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Musings by Dr Poppy 🩺 Wednesday wisdom from a six-year-old… “Dr Poppy, do doctors ever get poorly?” Yes, sweetheart, we do. “Who gives YOU stickers then?” And just like that, I’ve realised my workplace benefits are seriously lacking. 💛
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Thank you Lex, much appreciated 💛
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Ada’s Tea Leaves ☕✨ Seven twenty-two this morning. The kettle had barely finished boiling when the bell above my door gave its first little jingle. A young nurse from St Jude’s. Still in her scrubs. Hair scraped back. Eyes telling me she’d had one of those =
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Paging Dr Poppy Today, I was handed a very important letter. It was written in purple felt-tip pen, decorated with approximately seventeen stickers, and addressed to: Dr Poppy. The Children’s Doctor. St Jude’s Hospital. Apparently, that was enough for it to find me. =
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Paging Dr Poppy Today, I was handed a very important letter. It was written in purple felt-tip pen, decorated with approximately seventeen stickers, and addressed to: Dr Poppy. The Children’s Doctor. St Jude’s Hospital. Apparently, that was enough for it to find me. =
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= just when they’re frightened. Not just when they’re poorly. But when they have ideas, opinions, complaints and suggestions about how we could make their world a little better. Because being seven doesn’t mean your voice matters any less. And =
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= Amelia? Well, she’s already made one very important change to Starlight Ward. Tomorrow, I’m wearing pink trainers. Apparently, the crown is still under negotiation.
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