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Showing posts with label Dr.Ravi's Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr.Ravi's Poetry. Show all posts
Today I wheezed, today I sneezed,
Today I learned a lesson.
That breathing in and out each day
Is really quite a blessing.
Some tubes connect my mouth to my lungs,
And at times they swell up like a balloon.
And when they do, the air squeaks through,
So my breathing appears out of tune.
This swelling occurs when I pat the dog,
Or run out in the cold.
When grass is cut, or leaves are raked,
Or when there’s lots of mold.
I’m absent when the tubes swell tight.
Some say I’m playing hooky,
But when breathing is a struggle,
I can’t even eat a cookie.
I’ve learned what I’ve got is called asthma.
It’s a good thing for me that I’m bright.
I test my breathing at the start of each day,
And avoid things that make the tubes tight.
The dog sleeps in the basement.
I keep my stuffed toys clean.
No one’s allowed to smoke inside,
Hope you don’t think that’s mean.
Sometimes no matter what I do
The tubes swell anyhow,
But I have tricks tucked up my sleeve.
I’ll share some with you now.
I puff special medicine into my mouth
With a nebulizer gadget.
It works to open up the tubes.
It really is like magic.
Before I play some basketball
Or run out in the rain,
I puff a different medicine.
Then I can join the game.
I don’t eat many junk foods,
And I try hard not to whine.
These tricks help me stay healthy,
So most times I’m just fine.
If breathing in and breathing out,
A zillion times each and every day.
Is something you do without a thought,
Thank God for this gift when you pray.
- Dr.R.Ravindranath
Waiting to see the consultant as an outpatient
Minutes move by and hours pass by making you impatient
One comes out as other goes in, still how many patients?
Even as your heart harps, mind admires the physician’s patience.
As your turn comes and, you see the intern
“How long have you had this?”, he asks with concern
And proceeds to probe all your deeds and ‘miss’ deed
From what you eat to where you slept, only to help you indeed!
He hears the lung’s lullaby and heart’s hustling with stethoscope
Sees you eye to eye, deep into the eye with ophthalmoscope
Even as he takes off his white robe
Says He ‘You are infested with a terrible microbe’.
“Call Mary”, orders the medic, “Feel his pulse”
Feels sorry the patient, failing to check his impulse
Acute as he is, with all his body heat
Cute as she is, measures him in Fahrenheit.
“Gulp this” says the girlie, handing over a tab of paracetamol
“Help yourself as I rub the swab of alcohol!”
As the millies from the vial being syringed
Your sinews, feel your milieu being infringed.
“Will I be all right?”, you ask your illness course
Wondering whimsically what has brought this curse
“Don’t worry, be happy” , consoles the nice nurse
Swells your heart with hope, even as your fingers feel a thinner purse.
When one gets ill
He goes to the doctor to have some pill
If he gets well, he pays the bill
Or out of sight, having left his will!
Origin
PA said “No more pleasure to gain, than to relieve somebody in pain
Of all professions, none is nobler than the one who makes the disabled able again
Even Ma nods, “Next to god none else serves the sad one”
So also thought I, and acted to become one.
Education
Eleven to twelve years, many finish their education
Seven to eleven years, again to complete medication
Greek and Latin to decipher, papers to present and volumes to study
Takes another decade to become steady.
First Posting
Peanuts, they pay for many a sleepless night away
‘Noble Profession’, powerful politicians talk off the talk of pay
Drugless Dispensaries, day and night, what to dispense?
Only spiritless workers, with ‘spirits’ at exchequer’s expense.
Night Call
‘Doctor Doctor!!’, a restless patient knock at the dead of night
Little he cares about the resting physician’s plight
“I didn’t have time, had to see off friends in the weekend”
The beach and the movies have left him weakened.
In the Hospital
As you see the medic with a sea of troubles
Expect him to give a magical cure to see off all his troubles
Only the doctor knows the diseases he has so many
Even half of them can’t be cured with all his money.
Chamber
As I analyze umpteen symptoms and systemic signs
He asks me to detail the treatment designs
Even before I say we are in the site of diagnosis
Eagerly he asks, “What is the prognosis?”
In the ICU
As the fingers crossed, I wonders, “What is the GOD’s will ?”
One of the relatives asks, “Should we prepare his will 7’
When I say for all his ills, there is no panacea
Another one asks, “What do you think of euthanasia?”
Billing
“You are the GOD in Human form, saving me from all bother,
From deathbed thee brought back in good stead, my father.
What can I do for you? “asks he, Say I, “Pay only my fee”.
“What can I do? “(change tone), again asks he, as if I fleece.
The Ultimate
With trauma you see the experienced surgeon, who sewed the tissues intact
Traumatic experiences, he gets, being sued for non issues, in fact.
Let not the people shower praises, in abundance, as their gratitude
Enough if ‘sense’ prevails over ‘nonsense’ to change their attitude.
- Dr.R.Ravindranath
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
A garlic a day keeps everybody away
“A peg or two a day keeps heart disease at bay”
Say even some Medics, why not I celebrate everyday?
They say, success in life comes to a workaholic
Does it matter if it spells a little differently, murmurs an alcoholic
Don’t they know, it elevates even a melancholic
Why the hue and cry, which is only symbolic.
It kindles the desire, but takes away the performance
With the boom of Viagra, should one worry about differvescence?
Seldom one ponders over sayings of Shakespeare
When settling their scores with spirits as it shakes the peer.
Scotland yard is the best yard by yard says even mum
When Scot’s product is taken only by measures, why this conundrum
You allow an Analgin, but if I take it’s analogy (a rose is a rose by any name) gin
Or rum or Whisky, why I am whisked away !
Medic may say excess of it produces hemorrhages,
Does he say, even little indulgence leads to cirrhosis
Even though it may cause a little pyrosis
Can you deny yourself and ration your gyrations.
Taking even a cup of wine
Makes me feel so fine
Let not the pleasure be only mine
Get it and take a measure to make it thine.
When it is a Panacea, taking away your inhibitions
Why they police with policies of punitive prohibitions
May not if they only experience its’ qualitative exhibition
As it is my time to vend again, herewith I stop my rendition.
- Dr.R.Ravindranath
A wise doctor or a nice nurse use it only as a swab
Only the nervous and feeble minded prepare their stony tab
Even a Martini, if any, like not I, as I am full of spirits
Let it be in the bowl and bowel of the dispirited.
Slowly slipping, sinking into the grip of Saturn’s sight
Salty sayings and peppery peeps ending in drunken brawls
Driving drunken is like dating to join the devil’s haul.
Nor starved stomach know what he ate
As it is not a common scene, or a mere matter of anemia
Casual drinkers landing in casualty with hypoglycemia.
Want to be breathless with bewildering sigh of cardiac myopathia?
Restless days with peripheral neuritis
Sleepless nights with perennial pruritis.
Even a Casanova may not like to adorn with gynacomasitia
The strongest swaying with cerebral atoxia
Palmar, Erythema and Cutaneous Purpura are not the only cooing signs
Spider naevi leaving cutaneous cartography of the devil’s designs.
Atropic gastritis or anaemia so pernicious
May be corrected with diet if nutritious
Well he may not become, once well into the Wernickes encephalopathy
Wisdom is not the word of Confucius, with Karsakoff’s psychopathy.
Veins over the abdomen unveil as ‘caput medussae’ , in serpentine matrices
Even as its’ counterpart in its core, ever threatening to burst esophageal varices
If you don’t put a full stop, comma, or at least an apostrophe,
The drama may end as a traumatic catastrophe.
The ultras sound a faint, fatty liver
Hemograms suggest an impending hemorrhagic shiver
Even as the CATscan cry on the closed hoses of cirrhosis
Hi tardy! Jeopardy heralds the day with jaundice so yellowish.
Even as it elevates healthy HDL, so also the lethal LDL
Odd is the evolution, yelling that the solution is not so ideal
The euphoric high of the inebriate ephemeric and unreal
Utopian he thinks, utterly failing to visualize the real.
Don’t you know, no sensible doctor ever kills or prolongs the disease
As longer he lives, the more he collects his fees
You take wine, wine takes wine and wine takes you
So Romans, Romeos and friends, it is time for adieu!!
Asthma, Basedow*, Cholesterol and Diabetes
Topics including these, with a take on Professional fees
Are given in this book in a capsule form
To calm your nerves, like Chloroform.
Kargil and Cyclone are not kept out either
Like Jejunum after Duodenum, one follows the other
Enemies of mankind - be they men, monster or microbes
Are discussed in verse form after several probes.
While the author may or may not be agnostic
He certainly is very diagnostic
The soul of the patients is laid very bare
But the words have been chosen with great care.
In extending the hand with a healing touch
One understands why he is sought after much
‘Doctor in verse, is it for the better or worse?
It’s all for the soul and essentially to nurse.
A Medico scribbling poetry while on call
Is not a strange thing mate; for his name says it all.
- Dr.R.Ravindranath
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* Basedow- Exopthalmic goiter
**Jejunum The section of the small bowel that follows duodenum
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“Wounds that don't heal
Nerves that don't feel.
No food I can eat at ease
What a disease I have” -- Diabetes!
Specialists call me by another name like Tripathy
As I induce painless or painful nerves, Neuropathy
And also vandalise the vast vascular network, Vasculopathy
Before I damage the camera of the eye, Retinopathy.
It is not due to what you eat, katta or meeta,
But as your lifeboat wrecks on the Islets of Langerhans
Even though you feel secure with the insulin of Best & Banting
Alas! the ultimate cure is still wanting!
As all your diet fails, you put on tablet
Your therapist says 'take it' or order your 'stone tablet'
As the needle-less therapy still cannot prevent you becoming lean
You lean on needle therapy with insulin, from which you may not wean.
Makes me pee all day & night putting me at stand-at-ease
No more about-turn once I develop hypertensive disease
The 'Nephro' says “No more kidding with your kidney”
Beg, borrow or steal to live on with your kith or kin's kidney”.
As the moiety forms the callous cataract
With the society - you fail to interact
All the afflictions of the errant eye
If you don't care, may bid a permanent bye!
You ask your Queen of hearts for some more tart
“Risk not dear, No more of them” comes the reply so curt.
Even as your ego takes the beating with the hurt
Odd becomes the arrhythmic beating of your heart.
As you cannot 'rise to the occasion' and vex
The urge ushers you to the sentinels of specialist in sex!
Waxing and waning of the velocity of your life's Niagara
Calls on you to fall on the pellets of Viagra!
When all the faltering organs invite diabetic coma
Your soul plays dilly-dallying within your soma.
Even as you recollect all the deeds of your karma
There comes the 'appointed time' with Yamadharma.
Initiated by the ineptitude & apathy, failing to gain sympathy
You wander hither - thither from naturopathy to homeopathy
If all your pathys cannot be allayed even by Allopathy
You become their prey or pray Venkatachalapathy!
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yours truly,
Dr.R.Ravindranath M.D.
Diabetes & Heart Care Clinic
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