Relationships
“My First Patient”
My first patient, a married woman in her mid-thirties, was an inpatient in a neurosurgery ward. She had been suffering from severe headaches for many years. The neurosurgeon, though academically brilliant, seemed to have an unsympathetic attitude and was subjecting her to a number of painful procedures, which included pneumoencephalograms, blood tests, cerebral arteriography, X-rays, lumbar punctures, and so on.
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“You Are As My Mother”
You are as my mother
aspired to be:
when I look in your eyes
– it’s her love I see.
This is reprised (“haiku’d”) as
You are as my mother
– it’s her love I see.
Which can be further abbreviated to
You are
– I see.
And the “you” is anyone, everyone, anything, everything.
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