Night Shifts

Author:  Salvator Vicario, MD (1)

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Brief Excerpt:  

Full moon arises
Above the setting sun
Signaling time to
Make haste
Racing against the clock
Ticking in rhyme to
“Morrows chime”

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Intubate! Ventilate!! Cannulate!!!
Defibrillate!!! Palpate?!! Reanimate!?
Too late to shock this night’s fate
Save to awaken reposing spirits whilst
Blinding the dreams of nocturnal warriors
Searching for darkness at dawn…

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Affiliation:

1. University of Louisville, Department of Emergency Medicine