Throwback to Anatomy

Its been a while since my last post, mainly because the last few months have been crazy. I have a lot of interesting stories to share and I promise I will as soon as I finish up my residency applications! I recently started to tutor anatomy for the first year students and I came upon these old poems that I wrote when I was a first year medical student. It was nice to look back and see how far I have come and how much I have learned during medical school.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scraping fat away for hours on end

To visualize that elusive artery

That will help you comprehend

The mysteries of cardiology

Or scooping partially digested food

From the meters of GI tract 

Hoping to have accrued

Yet another obscure fact

And worst of all, that putrid stench

Of death and decay prevailing

That no shower can seem to quench

Even as your knowledge is waning

All detract from the underlying brilliance

Of the intricate system that induces

The thoughts, emotions, and resilience

That make us more than flesh and bones

Heartbreaker

Normally gentle, loving and more

I did not hesitate to break his heart 

Severing vessels, cutting to the core

Callously tearing structures apart

Normally sympathetic, patient and kind

I did not hesitate to think of his pain

How his heart ached when she left him behind

Thinking he would never love again

Focusing on mastering the anatomy

I did not hesitate to think of the man

How blood coursed through each artery

For a distinct purpose, part of a plan

Fooled by the calcification and clots

Into forgetting the delicacy of the human heart