Innovation insight and poetry from a physician-technologist

<p>"Medicine is not a business<br /> You fools.</p> <p>Healing is your blueprint, activated<br /> to complete itself.</p> <p>A doctor does not broker it,<br /> The best anyone can do is align you<br /> With what you should be,<br /> And stay out of the way.</p> <p>(Like a teenager setting off an illegal firecracker.)</p> <p>Mostly, you pay the doctor for the alignment,<br /> And the nurse<br /> To keep the doctor out of the way.</p> <p>If you’re not ready,<br /> to get on with the business of what you should be,<br /> You come back later.<br /> Or, maybe, next lifetime.</p> <p>It’s not complicated.<br /> And it’s not a business.<br /> You fools.</p> <p>The doctor knows what you should be,<br /> when they know what they are,</p> <p>And if they don’t<br /> And the nurse can’t tell them,<br /> You come back later,<br /> Or, maybe, next lifetime.</p> <p>It’s simple, but<br /> It’s not easy,<br /> And it’s not a business you fools.</p> <p>I’ve seen it, GNP and recurring revenue and prayers so many pairs of high-intervention end-of-life care.</p> <p>It’s cosmic law<br /> That you cannot profit from someone else’s suffering.<br /> You only appear to,<br /> When you do not know what you are.<br /> When you are blind<br /> to the part of yourself that suffers with them.</p> <p>Which is why medicine is not a business<br /> it’s a relief,<br /> A chance to make yourself right,<br /> Whole.</p> <p>When you are whole, you come back later if you want or next lifetime,<br /> To heal."</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreaburbank/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Drea Burbank</a> is a physician-entrepreneur.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her series of poems, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/11/when-you-die-a-poem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When you die: a poem</a>," "<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/10/medicine-is-not-a-business-a-poem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medicine is not a business: a poem</a>," and "<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/10/a-physician