- Psychiatric Times Vol 27 No 11
- Volume 27
- Issue 11
Questions at “Doctor’s Appreciation Night” Dinner
When did my colleagues grow so old? When did the women and men I’ve known for thirty years start to stoop and tremble? When did all the old Chiefs die?
When did my colleagues grow so old?
When did the women and men I’ve known
for thirty years start to stoop and tremble?
When did all the old Chiefs die?
Who are the young ones who have replaced them?
Why are there more administrators here
than doctors? And why is the new Chief
buttering the hospital CEO’s bun?
Maybe I should turn off my bad attitude
with a gin and tonic, lighten up and grin
at the gray-bearded man talking to me
from inside the cracked ballroom mirror:
Grow up. Medicine is business.
Only patients’ appreciation matters.
And don’t you look funny in the role
of rebel, wearing your silk sport coat
and French shoes, an old stethoscope
in one pocket, a pad with scraps
of half-written poems in the other.
Articles in this issue
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Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysisalmost 15 years ago
The “Minimum Necessary”: How Much Will You Need to Divulge to Insurers?almost 15 years ago
Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disordersalmost 15 years ago
Looking Backalmost 15 years ago
The Business of Pleasure and Painalmost 15 years ago
Vincerealmost 15 years ago
Clinical Manual of Sexual Disordersalmost 15 years ago
Forensic Ethics, Interrogations, and Getting the Facts Rightalmost 15 years ago
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