Some musings

If you can daily take a hundred calls from patients who are ill

And calmly treat their every need with kindness and with skill

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If vaccines you must organise, when you receive the call

Despite just when they will arrive, you’ve no idea at all

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If liable you’re asked to be for what you can’t control

And then are made to feel the guilt, when not your fault at all

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If you can work long stress filled hours and then read in the press

That you’re a lazy ne’er do well who just could not care less

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If you can fill each passing minute with an hours worth of work

Then you’re in primary care my dear where life is just berserk.

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[after Rudyard Kipling]

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