Medicine and Poetry

Many times I have attempted to marry

The unlikely duo of medicine and poetry

Waxing poetic about health and wellness

Or lamenting in verse about a rare illness

Talking about everything that I in practice see

Incorporating the rhythm of poetry..

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Verses about Covid and the vaccine I have composed

Risk factors for heart disease I’ve written as a poem instead of prose

The effects of climate change on health I’ve described

I’ve talked about medications, over the counter and prescribed

Cancer, dementia, diabetes, diets have all been included

As subjects of my poems, to many aspects of medicine in my verses I’ve alluded..

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Both medicine and poetry I am passionate about

Neither one of them I can live without

Merging them leads to an interesting amalgam that I hope to claim

As my unique voice, a way of writing that bears my name