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The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate

March 30, 2011 By Gerard Fennessy Leave a Comment

The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate starts with an unusual finding hidden inside a patient’s jocks…

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, Featured, Health, Literary Medicine, Medical Humor, Poetry Tagged With: anesthetics, humour, patient, poem, prostate, prostatectomy, Surgery, urology

Green and Gold Malaria

September 30, 2010 By James Winton Leave a Comment

I travelled across Australia last week by air from Perth in Western Australia to Cairns in the far north of Queensland.

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Literary Medicine, Poetry Tagged With: Australia, australiana, humour, Medical Humor, poem, Poetry

Disclaimer

September 11, 2010 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Silence closes in and quiets the din, of all the noise that sound employs to expose the lie one tries to hide of ineptitude within

Filed Under: Arcanum Veritas, Literary Medicine, Poetry, What the Tagged With: ineptitude, poem, silence, silent

The Tunneler

August 20, 2010 By Tor Ercleve 1 Comment

I can’t escape its screeching cries,
Its siren serpents scorching eyes.
It draws me deep into the neath,
Below the wretches of the heath.

Filed Under: Literary Medicine, Poetry Tagged With: poem, Poetry, tunneler

Little Willie the Poisoner

February 7, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Perhaps you know Little Willie the Poisoner?

Willie poisoned his father’s tea;
Father died in agony.
Mother came, and looked quite vexed:
“Really, Will,” she said, “what next?!”…

Filed Under: Medical Humor, Poetry, Toxicology Tagged With: little willie, Medical Humor, morbid, poem, poison, Toxicology

Out, Out

January 31, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Robert Frost’s poem, “Out, Out -”, evokes the senseless madness that we see daily in the ED and in the ICU.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Death, macbeth, poem, Poetry, robert frost, senseless, shakespeare

When I Am In Doubt

January 17, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

A poem from ‘Playing God’ by New Zealand doctor Glenn Colquhoun:
‘When I am in doubt I talk to surgeons.
I know that they will know what to do.
They seem so sure….’

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: glenn colquhoun, medicine, new zealand, Playing God, poem

Operation

January 10, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

William Ernest Henley’s young life was ravaged by tuberculosis, as was detailed in Invictus. Having lost a leg to the surgeon’s knife, he had an intimate knowledge of what ‘going under’ in the 19th century meant.

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, General Surgery, Poetry Tagged With: anaesthesia, operation, poem, Surgery, william ernest henley

Invictus

January 3, 2010 By Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

William Ernest Henley was diagnosed with tuberculosis when he was only 12 years-old. Ultimately, he needed a below knee amputation of the left lower limb to treat the disease invading his bones. No matter the nature of your afflictions, Henley’s poem ‘Invictus’ will cover you in a shroud of invincibility and infuse you with an unconquerable spirit…

Filed Under: Medical History, Poetry Tagged With: invictus, joseph lister, peter pan, poem, Tuberculosis, william ernest henley

Choose Medicine

June 29, 2009 By Chris Nickson 1 Comment

A “trainee-spotting” poem from doc2doc written by manick – Choose Medicine

Filed Under: Literary Medicine, Poetry Tagged With: doc2doc, manick, medicine, poem, tnolan, trainspotting