{tah-dah! I did it Karla - I made it!}

Dearest Karla,

Thankfully...thankfully, Karen is out of the hospital and you are both safe at home again! It must have been harrowing - for both of
you! It was grueling, just to be on this side, praying! THANK GOD HE BROUGHT YOU THROUGH!

This is a powerfully-worded and earth-shaking piece you have written, Karla!

My beloved Papa was an MD for 50 years!! He was not like one of these modern doctors, thank You, Jesus! But he told me that when he was in Medical School (1930's), they were actually told they WERE gods, to behave like it!

He never did.......he had the kindest twinkling blue eyes, compassion, and a funny joke or saying for every occasion...but most of all, he believed IN God, and IN listening, to what God's creation had to say!

He said that if doctors would just listen, the patients usually diagnose themselves within the first ten minutes - (imagine that!) He was also a firm believer in using homeopathic methods, as well as, the modern medicine & techniques. And best of all, he related body to spirit.

I rarely go to a Medical Doctor except for emergencies - but I am thankful they are there when needed. Like anything else in life, the good guys always get pushed under, by the scum that rises to the top!

I'll stick to The Great Physician, thank you!!!

I can't tell you how happy I am that you're both back, intact. God speed the healing!

Love&Hugs&Rejoicing, Rhonda

a powerful piece Karla...thank God not all are like this
love and peace, Carole

Takes a poet-healer to sometimes remind professional healers of their humanity and the benefits it bestows upon others when exercised. Powerful poem.
Aberjhani

some of the physicians acted like they were above us...oh, I forget, they think they're God.

Many unfortunately do, but there are also many caring ones.

So true, Karla; but wasn't didn't it start with 327, ICU, though 633 was the best yet--the last room before home. God brought you out of there with a healed Karen; thank God that is over!
Peace&Grace,
Sharon

I think we've all felt this impersonal battle when in the hospital, either with ourselves or a loved one that is there. I encountered this with my mother once in ICU from a heart attack, and once with my daughter whom was four and in the hospital for phenomonia, both from nurses...I learned that one should never leave a family member alone in a hospital, you never know how they will be treated. Last year when my daughter who was twenty one had gall bladder surgery, she was hospitalized for three days, I stayed all three nights, and my sister inlaw and mom took turns in the day. She also had severe allergic reactions to the medication, and even allergic reactions to the sheets, so it was a difficult time, and you know how a lioness protects her young, so did I. Great write!
Blessings,
Joyce Bowling

This is exactly why I removed myself from this profession. I was only 19 when I became a nurse, by the time I was 29, I had to go elsewhere. I found that in order to "survive" mentally, one had to find a way not to get close...because generally most people are compassionate. When you see people die, day after day, after day, some right in your arms or three on the same shift, or babies even, watching mothers souls wretching...waiting above a 21 year old, who shot himself, in order to write down the time of death on his death certificate...you have to be "somewhere else" to handle this. I don't think I would have ever understood this, unless I lived it.
I want to cry, I want to feel bad when someone hurts or goes through an ordeal. So, I left nursing and was able to become empathetic all over again...
Loved the write~ You stirred up many emotions here, and rightly so...
but I really don't think it is meant to hurt, it just does.
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~

I know what you mean, Karla. My 98-year-old dad was in hospital a few months ago. My sister arrived one morning about 11am and found him with restrain straps of his wrists and his breakfast tray untouched. When I heard this, it brought tears to my eyes. How could the nurses be so cold and cruel to an old man? My mom and sister had to take turns staying overnight with my dad. I have lost faith and confidence in hospitals. Thank you for sharing. Thank God, Karen is out of hospital now.

God Bless
Much love,
Lena

This is an excellent write, thank you for sharing this with us
God Bless
Michelle~

Many know this feeling all too well. We see you darling, we see you clearly.
Love Rebecca

Without doctors we can not manage life during illness yet some doctors are not giving enough attention during the time of dire need. Thanks sister and I pray for karen and for you as well,abdi-Noor

I can really relate to this, and I found I had to be my own advocate, which is so very hard when you are suffering to begin with, I wish her the best and hope she is feeling as better as possible soon-love, Michelle

I know a variety of doctors and if they are a bit older, most act like humans, so some act more like aliens, which it seems alot are...LOL! (not sure what planet they come from though)

I would not generalise, but the majority of specialists, doctors and nurse feel that whatever they do, we must someday die, so they fleece us out of our money before we do pass away. Not only in US, believe me. Victor

I hate Doctors
They don't know what
their doing half the time.
Most Doctors are drunks...
I've done work for Doctors,
and charge the hell out of them.
I hope the best for you and Karen..
Your friend,
The Doctor hater...

You are right of course their are many doctors and nurses out there that are like that and it is hard sometimes not to generalize for negative experiences weigh heavier then good sometimes. All we can do though is thank God for all the kind loving medical personal who work day in and day out to make us well and let us know they care.

Fee

I have met doctors like this before.

Prayers thank you

blessings,

Joselyn

Bedside manner some just do not seem to feel the need.
Some see a number, others a name and person.
Always in my prayers..

They think they are above us, the patient. In their personal lives they miss out for the most part. Medicine takes all from doctors. They give it everything they have and when it comes down to being human, this is their lack. When you try to harmonize medicine with immortal souls...they lose everything...for the mosr part. There are exceptions in everything too, so for the doctors who have soul, I apologize.
Love,
Susan

That room number seems familiar...LOL

Powerful write, Karla; very well done! BRAVA~ Congrats on 1,800 poems, what an accomplishment! Take a bow; may there be many, many more from your gifted pen!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin sister, Karen Lynn. :D

Your poem brings back memories of past and place me within this reflection of how it is and what many must go through when facing this dilema of coldness and inability...


.....Art Sun...

Oh how true Karla. A well written piece of impersonal treatment. Having had more than my wanted share of hospital stays, I can appreciate the occasional nurse or doctor who shows concern for the person more than the disease.
Rusty

Sometimes that is how it is in hospitals. It seems that the nurses are so overworked that they have no energy left to be attentive to the patient's personal needs beyond the needed medical ones. They offer treatment and little else because they don't have the time to offer anything else. Many nurses pull double and sometimes even triple shifts, it is no wonder that they have no patience for their patients.
Take care,
Sherry