Medical Writing: the Healing Power of Narrative

Then I offered a poem by Mary Dowd, MD, from The Permanente Journal, Fall 2008. 12 (4):

The door clangs shut.

All eyes turn toward the diversion.

The nurse and I walk in,

two little female sticks,

bobbing in a sea of men.

The room is large, but small,

dimly lit, swarming

with elbows, feet, faces

dozens of men

in orange scrubs

talking, joking

shoving, pushing

pacing, roaming.

The ceiling is high, but low,

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