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The Malignancies of Medicine …
Utkarsh Acharya
utkarsh.h.acharya.1@ohio.edu
Burdened with “blocks” and boards;
Examination upon arduous examination,
Test upon test;
We rise before the suns and set long after the moons;
We tirelessly and trepidatiously trouble our cerebral convolutions
With details of corticospinal tracts and café au lait spots and Cushing’s syndromes;
We intellectually desecrate the sanctity of a human corpse;
Only to expose features more personal to an individual than even the priceless unseen tears shed over a loved one;
We watch our colleagues attempt to dissolve dysthymia,
With solvent diaries and defeated drunken dialogues;
With only the hopes to one-day to elucidate the elusive culprits of human suffering; and
With only the hopes to one-day doctor the destructive maladies of another human being; and
With only the hopes to one-day eradicate injurious epidemics and preserve the welfare of mankind;
For these hopes, we endure cortical callous and somatic dysfunctions; and
For these hopes, we endure the Malignancies of Medicine…
About the author
Utkarsh Acharya is a third-year student at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Published: February 11, 2008