Life or Linen
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FROM THE INSIDE
Life or Linen Anab Rebecca Lehr* © 2020 Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature
It’s an emergency! Doc! The patient collapsed
Honey! The laundry is ruined What happened?
I don’t know; Let’s start with ABC
I don’t know; I can’t see Why so white?
Must be anemic, Acidotic or pulseless
Must be a forgotten Kleenex In the pocket of a dress What should we do?
Add meds, tubes and lines One after the other
Remove pieces One after the other Is it over?
After far too many rounds of CPR, We should probably call it
Can’t get rid of them all, Even another cycle can’t clean it Breaking bad news?
SPIKES won’t stop neither the screams Nor the shivers up your spine
Distressing guilt; I know the outline What else is left to say?
It was their only kid Fatality!
It was his favorite kit Calamity! So what now?
We’ll have to cancel dinner plans
We’ll have to cancel dinner plans
A crisis is in the eyes of the beholder… Beware of emotional numbness! *Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada
Acknowledgements With gratitude to the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine for their support of this project through the Medical Humanities Education Grant; to Kay Min and my colleagues for the opportunity to reflect on our lives as human and doctors through “Literary Arts in Critical Care” Curriculum. Funding University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, 2019 Medical Humanities Education Grant. Compliance with ethical standards Conflicts of interest The author states that she has no conflict of interests to declare.
Publisher’s Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Received: 2 May 2020 Accepted: 6 May 2020
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