- Vol 34 No 9
- Volume 34
- Issue 9
Bush Doctors
County hospital GYN clinic back in the days of Power to the People, five hours for 50 women stirruped by our clinic nurse...
County hospital GYN clinic
back in the days of Power
to the People, five hours
for 50 women stirruped
by our clinic nurse, gloves
snapped on, K-Y smeared,
fingers inside, history pried,
uterus defined. Diagnosis
nailed, we scribbled scripts,
a progress note, delivered
the verdict while scrubbing
our hands, feeling as heroic
as bush doctors in Zimbabwe
caring for the masses in five
minute visits, useful training
for future psychiatrists
paid for quick encounters
with beads and colored cloth,
lines of patients snaked
outside our tents, coins
offered from satisfied hands,
others hungry for more
of our hearts, our flesh,
knives concealed under robes,
blades honed,
points polished silver.
Articles in this issue
about 8 years ago
Financial Incentives for Adherence: Do They Pay?about 8 years ago
Partnering With Primary Care Clinicians to Improve Adherenceabout 8 years ago
Psychotherapeutic Strategies to Enhance Medication Adherenceabout 8 years ago
ECT for Catatonia and Melancholia: No Need for Ambivalenceabout 8 years ago
The Quiz: Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Painabout 8 years ago
Hemingway’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathyabout 8 years ago
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossmanabout 8 years ago
I Feel Your Pain, Actually, Really?about 8 years ago
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