Analysis of A Lesson for the Intern
A Lesson for the Intern
The patient did not want the language line and had no relative to interpret.
And so—the intern took the history in the patient's heavily accented English and presented that the patient was—as the term goes—a poor historian.
When I spoke to him in his native language---he was alert and focused. He was rich in detail and appreciation.
The intern asked me if the patient had become suddenly more alert.
I admitted that certainly that was possible---but that more likely---as with us all---he didn’t think with an accent.
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Metre | 0101010 01011101010111001010 01010101000010100100100010101011011010100 11111011010110101011100100010 010111010101100101 10101100111001111011111111101 |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 72 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
About this poem
real life in the Emergency Department
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Written on March 27, 2022
Submitted by JamesEspinosaMD on October 11, 2022
Modified on April 07, 2023
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