Saturday, October 9, 2010

Internal Medicine Poem

I am frequently asked:  What is Internal Medicine?  The answer: "I am the doctor for adults" or I am the primary care physician", just doesn't seem to cover it.  I think this poem from the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) does:

Today I Saw

diabetes in a brown pantsuit
recently widowed, bringing her daughter
for the first time.

Bladder cancer still working
full time after surgery
with two sons to get through college.

A stroke crying and embarrassed
to be unmanly since his release
from the hospital.

A health care checkup squeezed in
before her insurance runs out.
Downsized out of a job.

High blood pressure out of control
from the stress of a daughter
raped at age sixteen.

Recurrent breast cancer smiling.
Thin but happy to be leaving on her first cruise.
To her I say bon voyage.

Barbara Fleming-Phillips, MD
Lexington, Kentucky

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