Compassion 101 Poem by Don Winslow

Do Doctors take Compassion 101?
Are they taught how to treat us with kindness?
Can Considerate Cancer Care be instilled from without?
Compassion must come from somewhere, but where?

If Doctors do take Compassion 101
Do they get marks from the teacher?
Are there A students and B students?
And what about the dunce of the class?

Three doctors knew my prostate well,
One said, 'Call me at anytime! '
The second said, 'Daytime or nighttime! '
The third said, 'Do you realize how many patients I would have to call? '

Should I feel lucky to have had two doctors with A's and only one with an F?

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This is my first “anger” poem. It was written just after I took the workshop on healing through poetry at The Wellness Community. John Fox, poet and workshop leader, told us that we could release our anger and frustrations by getting it down on paper. I can tell you that it works!