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. 2002 Jan 5;324(7328):41.

Choosing a doctor

PMCID: PMC1121946

Give me a doctor partridge-pump,

Short in the leg and broad in the rump,

An endomorph with gentle hands

Who'll never make absurd demands

That I abandon all my vices

Nor pull a long face in a crisis,

But with a twinkle in his eye

Will tell me that I have to die.

Footnotes

W H Auden (1907-73), English born American author, in Nones, 1951

Submitted by Fred Charatan, retired geriatric physician, Florida


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