Med Poetry Healing through Words

The Doctor’s Message

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MY little patient, gone so soon before,
To that mysterious, much desired shore;
Whenyou come there, where yet I hope to be,
-hat will you tell the blessed Lord for me ?

A Fourteenth Century Doctor

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WITH us ther was a Doctor of Phisike.
In all this world ne was ther non him like
To spek of phisike, and of surgerie :
For he was grounded in astronomie.

Surgery Vs. Medicine

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I am a surgeon, and in making this assertion
‘ Tis my apology for doing what I can
To set aside that undeserved aspersion…

The Physician

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ANOTHER, all whose face
Bore marks of patience, train’d by years of care.
His glasses, shifted oft with easy grace…

The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation

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AN astonishing Doctor has just come to town,
Who will do all the faculty perfectly brown :
He knows all diseases, their causes and ends;
And he “begs to appeal to his medical friends…

Appendicitis

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HAVE you got the new disorder?
If you haven’t ’tis in order
To succumb to it at once without delay.
It is called appendicitis…

The Doctor

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In love he practiced, and in patience taught…

The Doctor’s Dream

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I am sitting alone, by the surgery fire, with my pipe alight, now the day is done;
The village is quiet, the wife’s asleep, the child is hushed, and the clock strikes one!
And I think to myself, as I read the Journal, and I bless my life for the peace upstairs…

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