Primary Care

by Jordan Grumet

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Table of Contents


Jane

Secrets

Degradation

Footsteps

Remembering Him

Alone

Primary …. Care

Dyspnea

On Call

Discontent

Penance

Narcotic Abuse

Hope

I Am the Father

When Death Comes

Awake

And Yet

On Call


5 AM

Fatigue, nausea,

shower, hospital,

patients first

then paperwork.


9 AM

Crowded office, phone calls,

walk in patients, sick staff,

head congestion.


12 PM

Lunch meeting,

afternoon clinic, interruptions,

phone calls,

lab results.


5 PM

Drive home, traffic,

ice, cold, weather,

coughing.


6 PM

Dinner, dishes

children, baths,

bedtime, stories,

laundry.


9 PM

Journals, mail,

diaper changes on the newborn,

a few minutes

with my wife.


11 PM

Sleep.


12 AM

Interruption, the Emergency Room.


1  AM

Help son to the bathroom.


2 AM

Give admission orders.


3 AM

Diaper change.

She looks up at me,

6 weeks old, she smiles,

closes her eyes,

Hope…

Peace, for just a moment.


Every day


5 AM

Fatigue

Nausea

Shower

Hospital,


Patients first.

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