Hospitals Poems - Poems about Hospitals

Everything leads up to this adds up to this position where you think you'll be alone forever but fairly soon if not exactly next week you will meet someone in a park or stuck in traffic They will set your flesh alight slowly much too slowly and it will seem like bad behaviour you will feel as if as if you are harbouring an infection You...

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Time marches on but the story doesn't change. Innocent lives being taken by a person whose deranged.. Last weekend in Pa. it was our state police, one is still critical, and the other is now deceased.. The unstable shooter is also now gone. Will this ever stop? What keeps going so wrong? This tragic story truly rings home for me. I...

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Hospitals are designed (a) to make you appreciate your bed at home (b) to prompt many unanswerable questions (c) to facilitate smooth patient care (d) to never complain about your wife’s cooking again Referrals to a psychiatrist are made when (a) you become catatonic after having no sleep for a week (b) after complaining about a noisy roommate you start...

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For 65 years, I had no need to be under the care of a doctor, nor was I ever on prescription medication except for dental issues. At 65, I went to see my assigned primary doctor, and after saying Hello, my next words were, "Doctor, just give me no pain". I admit, for 6 decades, I had been blessed...

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JELLO I hate jello because it is a food once in your mouth it wiggles moves reminds me of what worms must feel like to eat grosses me out for the life of me Who had such a fantasy to make some squishy protein From animal parts most disgusting Food served in hospitals observably Jellied cranberries a similar food Would rather have cranberry juice And...

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What really makes patients gasp for air? How far blaming poor oxygen’s fair? Go right unto root’s core And a ship comes to shore: Hospital bills do have giant’s share. Still deeper should ye pore, Bleeding cause comes to fore: Dearth of hope and death-wish of despair! ______________________________________ Happenings |21.05.2021| Poet’s note: One might feel that a limerick form for a subject matter so...

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These walls, crumbling through time. seeing old metal beds, stained mattresses, broken sinks and toilets, rusted old medical supplies and a vacant morgue. I'm walking through a dark place where pain was inflicted, on patients to non existing ailments. Lobotomies, electroshock, meds that these doctors and nurses, thought would cure such simple illnesses. The flickering florescent lights above...

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For 65 years, I had no need to be under the care of a doctor, ...

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Since that shutdown thing Things have been quite quiet here at work Im a porter in a hospital Moving people for transport and some other things now My hospital has stayed the same, But everyone is looking like surgeons and dentists, Ive read the governments writing, We mustn't do this; we must do that, Fair enough, They probably know their stuff The COBRA meetings probably...

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I have lots of relatives in Mental Hospitals who I do not Go Visit For Obvious Reasons....

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hospitals must help all who need medical care-- insurance or not...

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The EKG-ECG beeped as she "breathed" heavily with the oxygen mask across her face gradually her hope "limped" her little fingers revealed her hunger for comfort her spontaneous restricted movements showed her mind refreshed the terrible moments of deja vu- the scene that sprung her sadness the silence around her seemed intimidating-stealing-encapsulating her awareness lying on the bed she appeared death infested-deficiently dying...

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