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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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Maurice Rigoler

Date: 1/2/2023 7:00:00 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

Date: 12/28/2022 12:27:00 PM

This seems sadly prophetic. We'll miss you Milt, but will never forget you.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 12/23/2022 3:05:00 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

Date: 12/11/2022 6:44:00 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
Date: 12/11/2022 7:46:00 PM

Oh my goodness. It must've really been bad that day! Thanks, Robert.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 12/11/2022 1:52:00 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
Date: 12/11/2022 4:27:00 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.