Aug 30
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
An Anteroom to Eternity?
(Nigdaw in Essex said it much better)
Waiting in the E.R.
More waiting in the E.R.
The pain is back
Waiting in a corridor as people walk by
and look at you
Waiting in another corridor, gasping hello to
a curious, wide-eyed child
Someone gives you an injection
Waiting in yet another corridor
Pushed into a room
"Oh, wait, it's not ready..."
Pushed back into a corridor
Wait…
The hours...the hours...
Note: my experience with health care professionals, from the nice young man who brings the meal trays to the great physicians, is uniformly wonderful and I am most grateful to them. The – THE – problem is the corporatism that now rules even nominally religious hospitals with the clawing, grasping hands and narrow minds of Scrooges. Administrators and stockholders will cut work hours and understaff units if only a poor dollar, rather than a poor human, is saved.
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
An Anteroom to Eternity?
(Nigdaw in Essex said it much better)
Waiting in the E.R.
More waiting in the E.R.
The pain is back
Waiting in a corridor as people walk by
and look at you
Waiting in another corridor, gasping hello to
a curious, wide-eyed child
Someone gives you an injection
Waiting in yet another corridor
Pushed into a room
"Oh, wait, it's not ready..."
Pushed back into a corridor
Wait…
The hours...the hours...
Note: my experience with health care professionals, from the nice young man who brings the meal trays to the great physicians, is uniformly wonderful and I am most grateful to them. The – THE – problem is the corporatism that now rules even nominally religious hospitals with the clawing, grasping hands and narrow minds of Scrooges. Administrators and stockholders will cut work hours and understaff units if only a poor dollar, rather than a poor human, is saved.
