Zombie AHCA is fittingly cursed It sinks from worser to worst By unprotecting EHB’s And pre-existing bad knees. Bury it near #AHCA The First!
Category Archives: Medical Verse
Trump’s budget: a limerick on academic funding cuts
DT’s budget proposal shows defiance On the value of humanities, art and science. It defunds NEH, EPA and NIH, But academe’s reply won’t be silence!
Trumpcare inspires a limerick call to action
CBO says with Trumpcare’s decree 24 mill will lose healthcare bigly! We must now as a nation Block this cruel legislation Use 5calls to call your MOC!
Trumpcare: a limerick
On #Trumpcare, CBO will soon weigh We already know it will say: Trumpcare’s name is a LIE And will leave some to die. Hippocrates would cry “foul play”!
Bronchiolitis guideline limerick
In honor of bronchiolitis season, I am posting here a limerick I wrote summarizing the AAP’s 2015 guidelines for treatment of bronchiolitis: When treating bronchiolitis, Refraining from films would delight us! Please also avoid The neb and the ‘roid… After all it is only a virus! For other medical verse, please see my blog. Source: Bronchiolitis guidelineContinue reading “Bronchiolitis guideline limerick”
Limerick version of In Defense of Food
This poem is inspired by Michael Pollan’s PBS documentary In Defense of Food, available here for free viewing until the end of the month: The wisdom Michael Pollan incants– Eat food, not too much, mostly plants— Is simple declared Yet we’re easily ensnared By the food industry’s science-y dance. So here are some other wise rulesContinue reading “Limerick version of In Defense of Food”
Limerick version of guideline on acute pharyngitis
This limerick is based on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis. Whom do you test for Group A Strep? To avoid treating strep carriers (a misstep!) In kids under 3 don’t bother Unless a sister or a brother Has symptoms and a test that sayContinue reading “Limerick version of guideline on acute pharyngitis”
A limerick on the health risks of social isolation
Today’s limerick is inspired by today’s New York Times post on the health risks of social isolation. On meeting one seemingly solitary Invite them out, even if they’re not merry Tho’ you improve their health plight Expect no return invite And if lonely, of invites don’t be wary. The study quoted in the post showed that social isolation leads to negative thinking, whichContinue reading “A limerick on the health risks of social isolation”
Flu vaccine limerick
If you’re 6 months or older please do Get your flu vaccine each year anew It protects you and others Yes–even your mothers— And has no chance of giving you the flu.
Children’s Sinusitis Guideline in Iambic Pentameter
The American Academy of Pediatrics acute sinusitis guideline was too complex for limerickification, and even resisted sonnet format, so here it is in iambic pentameter. Nasal discharge’s mostly allergic or viral And thus needs only symptomatic care With no need for an antimicrobial trial Unless high-risk and flu virus is there. Only think sinusitis as a cause InContinue reading “Children’s Sinusitis Guideline in Iambic Pentameter”
Marion R. Sills, MD, MPH 