Our Hopes Joyfully Trotted Out

What can we buy that will cure what ails him? We wished that we knew. Trying treatment upon treatment. Lotions, creams, pills, and ointments. No relief was promised, but we were optimistic. We expected some good results. Our hopes were joyfully trotted out next to each treatment. Twenty, thirty, forty times, our hopes were lifted up. Finally dying a natural death, landing on the rocks of reality. This is why they call it practicing medicine.