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On Angels and Messengers

Friday, September 28, 2012

Practicing the Practice of Medicine




A PATIENT
AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL
is a canary in an over-sized Johnny,
singing the same old song, ad nauseum, in an antiseptic aviary,
to a pecking order consisting of dozens of very nice people,
wearing scrubs or lab coats and stethoscope necklaces,
so that they look like they must know something,
but fearfully confined to their assigned role,
never “the right person to ask”, and
apparently way too busy rotating
to actually talk with one another
as we used to do before the coup
when computers took control
of all communication,
or so it seems to me
from my perch.

Equal space will be afforded 
to responsible spokespersons with an opposing point of view, 
as long as their response is in the shape of R2D2 or C3P0, 
rather than the shape of Yoda.