I shall choose medicine all over again

The practice of medicine has been burdened by increasing constraints

Excessive costs and administrative burden make it difficult to maintain

The same quality of patient care as resources continue to shrink

By being pushed harder physicians are being brought to burnout’s brink

Therefore one of the question commonly posed these days

Is whether someone could consider a career pathway

Other than medicine if given a chance to choose again

For me, the answer is that Medicine would my first choice remain

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I went into Medicine by serendipity

The tale is too long to be told simplistically

But over the years, my profession has become an integral part of me

There is no other career in which I would rather be

Despite the challenges, as an incredible privilege I view

Being trusted with human lives, doing what I do..

When things are rough, there is an ever greater need

To follow through on the Hippocratic oath, to give it my best effort indeed

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Medicine as a profession chose me, not the other way around

In the practice of medicine, the purpose of my life I have found

When asked if I could go back in time and choose my profession again

I would choose medicine without a doubt, I would remain

True to the calling that pulled me in

The constant that stood by me through thick and thin

That has interwoven itself into my identity

Medicine is an embodiment of life for me..