Anesthesiologist's Lament.

نویسنده

  • Stephen T Harvey
چکیده

A fter a day of keeping up the shtick, As a colleague calls it, all the backslapping And one-liners that put the staff at ease, Dodging comebacks of passing gas and napping, The old clichés of caring for the sick While saving lives and stamping out disease, I settle in for an all-night case on call And let myself consider the surreal: Some sorry bastard known as Stat Unknown Who passed out, I am told, behind the wheel And managed to steer straight into a wall Of the courthouse, no less, has now been flown Here to purgatory, his position Suspended somewhere between life and death. That colleague told me once a good physician Is sometimes right, sometimes wrong, never in doubt. Sobered with that thought, I draw a breath, Hold it for a moment, let it out, And bow my head to pray with all my might, One sinner for the next, that I am right.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Anesthesiology

دوره 115 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011