August 10, 2010

• Patience for patients

      
        4 AM Emergency

  Early in the morn’ when the call came in,
  ‘nother drunken wacko? Or a broken shin?
  He doesn’t speak English, they said in a grin,
  The EMS there to greet.

  We then hauled out the translator phone
  So I could see why this patient did moan,
  Could he have a really bad kidney stone?
  That’d surely be quite neat.

  Through the phone he did then say
  that super-dry skin he’s had all day,
  and thus he came through ambulance bay,
  in order for me to treat.

  Dry skin? I said with one long glance
  He was quite dry not happenstance,
  for this he needs an ambulance?,
  I sighed in sad defeat.

  I check him out, go through the motion,
  No sir, no pills nor magic potion,
  But here you go, I call it lotion,
  apply from head to feet.

  Another life I saved today,
  The ER’s here so come what may,
  and I’ll be ready till that day,
  When it’s our turn to meet.

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  -I kinda wish this wasn’t a true story, but I can’t make this crap up.

  

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