Submission By: Kwabena O.M. Adubofour, MD, FACP
Image Obtained from: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/dew-drop-rose
Here at Daily Dose of Humanities, we strive to share content that can engage our humanity, our compassion, and our resilience. In our goal to prevent burnout, we cannot forget about the lives we touch on a daily basis. Our patients remind us how valuable life, and all the little moments that make it up, can be. Life may be short, but its vibrancy is so precious, and can never be forgotten.
This poem written by one of our founders, Dr. Adubofour, is honoring the life of one of our many inspiring patients.
Death in the ICU
For this life,
This once vibrant life hangs precariously.
A drop of morning dew
Shimmering,
Brilliantly,
Bright
An array of fading rainbow colors
At the edge of a rosy thorn.
For this life hangs precariously
Only to falter,
To drop and disappear
At the whisper of the passing breeze.
–Kwabena O.M. Adubofour, MD, FACP
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