L Milton Hankins Poet Rhyme

A Trip To the Doctor

A trip to the doctor, these days,
Is an ordeal in so many ways
     Glued to their computers, it seems,
     They never look at your seams.
Electronic gadgets fill the room
No personal talk unless it’s doom,
     They’re always in such a rush
     No time for issues to discuss.
Next appointment automatically generated
But not to see the doctor venerated,
     You’ll be handed off to a nurse prac
     That is, unless you don’t go back!

Written December 11, 2022

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Sara Kendrick December 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM Yes, mostly we see PAs these days. So many times, something very serious gets shoved under the rug or behind the door then by the time they actually try to get to the root cause of it, it is too late as it was with my late husband's sore throat. Sara K

David Scott September 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM Like the ryhme scheme pattern this so true what you have wrote l knew all to well ;^() davidscott

Hilda Greenhough October 7, 2024 at 1:17 PM Ha ha. This poem is very true. Medicine is changing. A lot is caused by the NIH (which I wrote a poem about). Now I finally have a good doctor, but it's late in the game. I'm beginning to age.

Maurice Rigoler January 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM I am experiencing your poem, Milton, and it almost to the letter. Everything is electronic and digital, fast to be sure, with results known almost immediately, good or not so good. / Maurice

John Watt December 28, 2022 at 12:27 PM This seems sadly prophetic. We'll miss you Milt, but will never forget you.

Caren Krutsinger December 23, 2022 at 3:05 AM " They never look at your seams." Loved this line. I saw a doctor in Urgent Care once and he asked, "who is your primary doctor?" and I said "You are." In five years he had never seen me, I had always asked to see the nurse practitioner because she is a woman.

Robert Gorelick December 11, 2022 at 6:44 PM It's better than having the wrong diagnoses, a doctor told me I was dying but it was just halitosis. Robert L Milton Hankins December 11, 2022 at 7:46 PM Oh my goodness. It must've really been bad that day! Thanks, Robert.

Tom Cunningham December 11, 2022 at 1:52 PM Amazes me when I go to the docs, I tell him what's wrong and he taps it in to his comp and says these should sort you out and prints off a prescription to take to the chemist (drugstore to you) and I thought how easy is that, a chimpanzee could do it lol. Tom L Milton Hankins December 11, 2022 at 4:27 PM It certainly has changed significantly in my lifetime. On the other hand, they have so much more information available to them than the old-time doctors did. So, I suppose it balances out.