12 December 2022
A/Prof. Julia Harrison
Congratulations they said
You’re a doctor, arsenic of now
Sign this, instrumentality that
A doctor’s bag, wow
Carry this with you always
Wherever you go
You mightiness prevention a life
You conscionable ne'er know
Only the essentials
No country for things petty
Move fast, question light
And ever beryllium ready
Adrenaline, atropine
GTN spray
Puffers, benztropine
A guedel airway
But that’s not what I needed
With my caller credentials
Aspects of character
Were much indispensable essentials
The enactment of a doctor
Is challenging indeed
Every ounce of capacity
Will assistance you succeed
You’ve cognition and skills
Ward smarts disconnected the chart
This connection is about
The relation of your heart
Doctors’ bags for caller grads
Are thing historic
And conscionable to beryllium clear
This rhyme’s metaphoric
What I deliberation you need
If up to maine to choose
Is a bully doctor’s bag
In which to transportation virtues
Which virtues to pick
To support you equipped
I’ve got a apical three
Read connected for the script
Love, adaptable dose
Through enactment oregon word
Apply liberally
Don’t forget, love’s a verb
Love is enactment and helping
Doing your champion for others
A consciousness that each people
Are sisters and brothers
Love gives the energy
To crook up with purpose
It’s portion of the job
Your role’s 1 of service
Humility, 10mls
Whenever you stumble
Swallow the medicine
It’s bully to beryllium humble
It volition support you connected track
Open and teachable
A agelong word effect
Is hopes go reachable
Humility and excellence
An oft association
We educators know
The nexus is causation
Courage, 1 large puff
Start precocious dose and routine
But by Feb oregon March
you mightiness commencement to wean
Keep the puffer connected hand
PRN volition enactment well
You’ll request it a lot
Some days volition beryllium hell
So that’s my apical three
You tin ever adhd more
This container ne'er fills
Here’s fig four
Humour, titrate to a smile
Enjoy this pharmaceutic
Life’s abbreviated after-all
And laughing’s therapeutic
Enough of this rhyme
Lest it commencement to flag
Three cheers for you
And retrieve your bag
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A/Prof. Julia Harrison
Emergency Physician
Director of Undergraduate Medical Education astatine SCS Monash Health
Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MNHS Alumna
English (US)