I Taught My Doctor Something Poem by Kim Barney
I Taught My Doctor Something
When I told my cardiologist
that whenever I get a nosebleed
I skip a 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 fogy
with eighty-three years
of life behind him.
Well done. Doctors really don't know everything. Usually they are very good, but occasionally they make costly or deadly mistakes. I think what your cardiologist learned from you could possibly benefit many others!
I hope so. The blood thinner is expensive, and if you can skip a dose once in a while and still have good health, you can save money.
A great poem, Kim. It serves a warning. Very interesting.
Skipping a dose of blood thinner can sometimes be fatal. There must be scientific findings to support any medical recommendation, in my humble opinion.
I hope this won't be the last time your doctor writes something down. Great poem, Kim
Perhaps the part that Bharati found hardest to believe is that you could actually read your doctor's handwriting!
Perhaps you are correct, Belle, I really don't know which part she found unbelievable. Thanks for commenting.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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It is amazing what sort of insights practitioners can pick up from patients! Being a paramedic myself I have picked up one or two : ) Thank you for sharing this! It is always a pleasure to read your brilliant works! ! !
I didn't consider it brilliant. I just wrote it as it happened. I was surprised when I saw him taking notes. Thanks for commenting.