Sonnet- the Physician’s Greatness

O Physician, thou art really great!
Remarkable is thine intelligence;
Adeptly, thou changeth the illness’ fate;
Extra-perceiving man with common sense!

With naked eyes, thou mak’th right diagnosis;
The masses benefit by thine prowess;
Endowed by God with intuition’s largess,
Thou cans’t yet blindly give the prognosis.

The man with knife believes only when seen;
The man with ’scope, magnifies and believes;
The x-ray man sees patients through eyes keen;
Thou man with Steth, by ear and touch perceives.

Thou art the greatest specialist on earth!
Alas! thine number is seeing its dearth.

dedicated to the API (Association of Physicians of India) by Dr John Celes

poem by John Celes
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