Kayla Simms
University of Ottawa
Class of 2016
Upon being accepted to medical school in 2012, I received a special edition of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” from a personal mentor; reminding me to not just look ahead, but to remember and cherish the distant memories that shape who we are. I recently stumbled upon this memorabilia when I returned home over the March Break, and sat down to write this poem.
This poem is a testament to the physician’s inner-child and the ‘art’ of medicine.
If Dr. Seuss Were My Doctor
If Dr. Seuss were my doctor
Oh, what a script he would write
Surely more than a drug
Or some metabolite
He would tell me to wonder
To marvel and pause
To feel good about “me”
With a round of applause
“Look where you are
My, how far you have grown
From tying your shoes
To a big student loan”
He would look in my ears
Say “stick out your tongue”
He would stretch my extensors
Examine each lung
He’d use words like “Glarbish”
And “Sniffer” and “Bluck”
And “Puffly” and “Huffly”
And “Flomber McRuck”
His office would be covered
In posters galore
Of cats and green eggs
The tales we adore
His Nurse would be Thing
Not One nor not Two
But the Third of its kind
And would be just as blue
“The doctor is in!
He lives in your heart
Everyone is a healer
You can all play the part”
Dr. Seuss is my doctor
Yes, surely he’s me
The child I was
The doctor I’ll be
He’s more than a story
Or a book or a rhyme
He’s my childhood self
And a healer, with time
Dr. Seuss is my doctor
He’s the doctor within
Oh, the places you’ll go
When the doctor is in!
CindyL Gregory
Ms Simms,
Your poem is clever and charming! Thank you and I wish you much success in your journey!
Would we be allowed to use this poem for our gift bags at our May AAPC Chapter meeting? Our theme is Dr Suess and it would be a wonderful addition to our theme!
Thank you,
Cindy Gregory
Membership Development Coordinator
AAPC Chapter
Harrisonville, MO
CMAJ
sure thing! send a picure to blog@cmaj.ca
Kayla s
Hi Cindy,
Thank you so much for your kind words – I would be honoured to have my poem shared at your AACP Chapter Meeting. I hope the CMAJ blogs were able to help you out with this.
All the best,
Kayla
BUBS
Absolutely AMAZING. May all your dreams and goals be fulfilled to the Nth degree…..If anyone in this world is capable of doing just that…IT IS YOU!!!!!!! From a very unbiased person and great admirer..who loves you beyond the stars and right through the black hole…BUBS
Mary Gorman
what a sweet little poem.
Reminds me of my copy of Green Eggs and Ham
on the top shelf
in my Geriatric clinic.
It draws the odd smile
from those students inquisitive enough to peruse my book case.