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News|Articles|March 3, 2024
A Patient's Cancer Positionality
Author(s)Roger S. Platizky
There's irony in a healing place for a patient's cancer positionality.
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Positionality
A bald woman in a face mask
Being wheeled through the hospital corridor
The doctor thinks metastasis, final stage
A nurse tries to protect and cover
Her exposure
A stranger buying get-well cards
Sees the irony in this healing place.
A bald woman in a face mask
Passes the hospital gift shop
In a wheelchair that her granddaughter
Is strongly pushing:
Neither of them is thinking
Of Death today.
This post was written and submitted by Roger S. Platizky. The article reflects the views of Platizky and not of CURE®. This is also not supposed to be intended as medical advice.
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