Author: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) // Edited by: Mike Weinstock, MD (@embouncebacks) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit)
The ambulance bay – where the wind whistles, fog dissipates, and icicles melt
Keep an eye on the hard work we do
Deeply meaningful and needed
From 23 yards away, there is a physician suppressing emotion
Curiosity, triumph, doubt… humility?
Who would want to walk in their shoes. From a distance, we see waves of wildflowers
Beautifully chaotic, flowing together, back and fore, bending with the passing breeze
But below, camouflaged, submerged, suppressed – hidden mines lie in wait
Are they content? It doesn’t matter, as the pain repressed…
but for rare times, when it smolders to the surface
Beaten family circling a loved one who has passed
An abusive father ferociously crying in the room where his child was coded
Penetrating trauma
A spiral of untreated psychiatric disease
Drug abuse/dependence – what separates us from our patients?
Still, we’ve got a lot left to accomplish
A return to the carefree times of past
Keep the child inside alive
So he can live to see another day
