Here is what the unhealed healers
say to each other
in residency training.
“Nobody thinks you’ll graduate intern year.”
“But this is just gossip…”
“But a consensus of the experts
is what medical education
Is.”
“There are no facts at all in these assessments.”
“Yes. You haven’t made a critical error that hurt a patient.
Yet...”
“But you’re below the level of a medical student.
Your two greatest weaknesses are,
medical knowledge and
clinical competency.”
“Oh, and patients report you lack
compassion.”
“I think…
There’s a chronic underlying level of
incompetence
and every once in a while it
rises to the surface.”
“Well is there anything I have done right?”
[A staring silence.]
If you’ve ever wondered what
carved your doctor
into unfeelingness,
It was this.
Planted in their subconscious,
day by day,
like a thousand tiny splinters
festering in the
soul.
But some of us,
have
Tweezers.