Alarms blare,
Lights glare
Machines bleep,
The child, asleep.
Tubed and wired,
Drugged and tired
Beneath the sheets,
A heart beats!
Charts to fill,
Labs to chase
What a daze,
This number maze!
Lactates jump,
Bicarb we pump
Bugs in lumps,
Having goosebumps!
‘Teico’ and ‘mero’
Our pet hero!
So much ‘vanc’
I am blank
What’s left? Colistin?
Then bring it in!
Poor kid!
Caught in a grid,
What was the history?
Oh that’s the mystery!
Generations apart,
With gadgets smart
As senses wane,
Lost is the art!
Where do we go?
We blind sheep
What we sow,
So shall we reap!
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Samprathi, M. A clinician’s remorse. Intensive Care Med 47, 258 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06159-3
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