DOCTOR’S DAY.. JULY 2023

Painful memories and future miseries

Medical schools, all of bricks and concrete, are same,

It’s the pupils bring laurels , glorify with rich tributes,

Many such are famous, its teachers attain immortality,

Hard work enriches the society, nation indeed rejoices.

 

Men in white coats all in esteem anywhere, everywhere,

Bear the fruits of the true sacrifice and perseverance,

Hard earned prefix oft conceals the boiled egg within,

Ask every student, their aim, a doctor reigns supreme.

 

Hard way to reach that summit, a steep and tall climb,

Obstacles galore all the way, tests often unrewarding,

Successful feet need a dozen or more peaks to climb,

Every peak has ups and downs, slips not uncommon.

 

Sleepless nights never count the midnight oils burnt,

Basic knowledge never stops, caravan climb not over,

Practice differs, hours of skills and hard work in wait,

Earning basics possible, yearning a name is arduous.

 

Trends had changed, rampantly in  Gods own country,

Drug addicts, toothless police, hooligans act their way.

Hospitals in attack, white coated men all, are insecure,

Damocles’ sword over their neck, day in and day out.

 

Budding doctor stabbed to death, no fault of her own,

Alcohol rules the state, enriching the coffers, its a pity.

Cream of all profession, their screams are yet unheard,

Crocodile tears aplenty, sans a drug for the vandalism.

 

Health care  needs funds with no returns for the coffer,

All awards decorate the table, will drain the exchequer,

Unbelievable, most families have a medico in the state,

Yet, the charm to become a doctor has vanished of late.

 

Bearing such incessant insults, these events do recur

Judicial remarks fail to spur the deaf ears, what a pity,

Day is not far, medicos may have two options to think,

Leave the state or be a teacher not to cure any patient.