I Taught My Doctor Something Poem by Kim Barney

When I told my cardiologist
that whenever I get a nosebleed
I skip of dose of my
blood thinner medication,
he wrote it down!

I saw what he wrote:
nosebleed, skip a dose
and I thought

Now he is going to tell
other patients to do
what I have been doing!

It seems that a doctor
with who-knows-how-many
years of schooling
can still learn something
from an old fogey
with eighty-three years
of life behind him.