First Words
…thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician
by Glenn Feole, M.D.
"Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy
laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote
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September 14, 2014 Sunday
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| from the NYT's, a musician in her home studio in New York City. |
Chief Complaint: (written on the chart before I go in the room)
fall from haystack (computer diagnosis when searching for "fall")
Interesting Name:
Bethzabeth
Anecdote:
The Mom had taken David to another doctor when I was off call. He had a sinus infection and was put on Amoxicillin. She said, "He doesn't usually do well with amoxicillin. He usually is on suprax historically."
David, age seven, looked at her in a puzzled manner and said,
"Hysterically?"
Westport, Connecticut 1990's
Coup de Essai:
"But you must take a poor man's word for it that I'm in greater need of plasters than of sermons," Sancho Panza to Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 15, page 114.
Poetry:
Favorite Musician/song:
Flim and the BB's "Dream Boat"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0OIEc4wdQ
Jimmy Johnson, the exquisite and humble bass player for James Taylor…probably my favorite of all time. Very sensitive, underplayed, thoughtful and creative bass. This song is lyrical and transporting. From their best CD, New Pants.
Poetry:
North Star
In Hanko, Finland
a young woman boards
the vessel in the Baltic
for a ship across the Atlantic.
The North Star shines in the sky.
She's carrying in her valise
a change of clothes
a packet of seeds
and the sauna dipper.
Distance pours between constellations
between English words on her tongue
through storms and sun.
In New York City, she buys
a one way ticket
boards the train going
across the continent
arrives on an inland sea.
The winter ground underfoot
is familiar with frost
as she transfers to a northbound
along the Vermilion Trail
in Minnesota.
Ahead of her waits a man
a house to be built
and a fire that burns it down.
Ahead, eleven children
to bear, a few she must bury,
the cows in the barn
needing to be milked.
Unbroken ground only hers to till.
Above her, the North Star
inside the aurora borealis, northern
banners waving welcome —
a young woman boards
the vessel in the Baltic
for a ship across the Atlantic.
The North Star shines in the sky.
She's carrying in her valise
a change of clothes
a packet of seeds
and the sauna dipper.
Distance pours between constellations
between English words on her tongue
through storms and sun.
In New York City, she buys
a one way ticket
boards the train going
across the continent
arrives on an inland sea.
The winter ground underfoot
is familiar with frost
as she transfers to a northbound
along the Vermilion Trail
in Minnesota.
Ahead of her waits a man
a house to be built
and a fire that burns it down.
Ahead, eleven children
to bear, a few she must bury,
the cows in the barn
needing to be milked.
Unbroken ground only hers to till.
Above her, the North Star
inside the aurora borealis, northern
banners waving welcome —
Favorite Musician/song:
Flim and the BB's "Dream Boat"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0OIEc4wdQ
Jimmy Johnson, the exquisite and humble bass player for James Taylor…probably my favorite of all time. Very sensitive, underplayed, thoughtful and creative bass. This song is lyrical and transporting. From their best CD, New Pants.
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