With the encouragement and financing of my employer, the hospital, Twice a year I haul tail to a physicians’ convention. Usually I choose the thing for the gland and kidney crowd, Of which I am a member, but sometimes I’ll take in a Shindig for cardio or pulmonary or gerontology, Especially if it’s held someplace warm and fun, And with lots of direct flights. You’d think My husband would come
The hospital remembers everything. The hospital remembers every patient, the day of entry and of discharge, the medications administered and treatments undergone. The hospital remembers every doctor, every nurse, every therapist, pharmacist, janitor, receptionist, and candy striper, all of whom are interchangeable. The candy striper could become a surgeon, the surgeon a patient, the patient a cadaver for the medical