The Good Old Days
| Autor: | David Littmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | The Cambridge Quarterly. 48:393-396 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6836 0008-199X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/camqtly/bfz013 |
| Popis: | It came to me, in times gone by, That nature often helped the cure, That doctors tried but not to hurt And drugs were mercifully weak. It's little help, these modern days, To urge restraint, to watch and wait. To stay the hot and eager hand With sharpened blade and two-edged drug. The patient's come with a disease, He must be healed tomorrow. An intravenous drip kept running —One never knows when it's required; A nasogastric tube with suction And oxygen, by tent or mask; A monitor displays the rhythm And calls each beat with raucous chant; Blood pressures taken . . . |
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