Emergency Medicine Haikus for all to enjoy

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Guy I shot before
Busted a cap in his ass
for stealing my drugs

He shot me tonight
Busted a cap in MY ass
Really! In my ass!

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Acute GI bleed.
Oh! Crushing chest pain doctor!
We need lots more blood.
 
I am finding that there is definitely something therapeutic about the art form of Haiku. I especially enjoyed Apollyon's "cap in MY ass" haikus.
 
Only 2 syllables in mileage.
 
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On night float tonight
There's no one crashing right now
Nothing else to do
 
I dictionary.com'd it and they say 2.
 
myriad haikus
fingers counting syllables
EM: misnomer?
 
From a fellow EM intern:

Renal way of life
Skip dialysis again
Potassium 9
 
A few more from my colleague on renal:

Four a.m. pages
Doc, this patient seems depressed
Clown to bedside STAT!

Hip fracture admit
But one comorbidity
Blue scrubs, green scrubs, fight!


CT scanner code
My patient's not being scanned!
I don't need to go

You're the renal 'tern?
The CT scanner code needs
A transfer note now.
 
:laugh: Four a.m. pages
Doc, this patient seems depressed
Clown to bedside STAT! :laugh:

Chuckles...we need chuckles dammit!!!!!
 
"These Two Dudes?" Oh, man.
They'll mess you up, wickid bad.
See them; cross the street.

Risky thing to do?
"Just minding my own bizness."
Livin' on the edge.
 
Night ambulance call
The itchy rash not so bad
Why call me at two?
 
"That's myiasis,"
corrected the attending,
of her toe maggots.
 
5/7/5 baby, 5/7/5. We don't want no mutant Haiku's here.
 
Seaglass said:
5/7/5 baby, 5/7/5. We don't want no mutant Haiku's here.

Seaglass...keepin real!
 
medicine haikus
this thread is too good to die
more 5-7-5
 
I'm logging that last post as a medical resuscitation. Just FYI.
 
the lament of the ED Tech

Cool procedure, but
Biohazard on my shoes.
Please, clean up your trays.
 
Left Needle On Tray
So Sorry My Good Tech Friend
Owe You A Six Pack
 
Nice try, Doc Seaglass
but "more 5-7-5 please"
is six syllables!

No such med resusc
despite your valiant* try.
(I, too, buff my log.)


*valiant: two syll or three, depending on your pronunciation. both accepted.
 
Tried to place IV
but baby boy had to pee...
Yellow wash on me!
 
HAIKU TRIPLET

My EM leader
said that I do not need her
Reason? Vag bleeder.

She came to our Room
with a dirty, bloody womb
that led to love's doom.

With menses, no qualm
But every day? God damn!
Now I've got to scram.


Politically correct disclaimer: Menses are normal. Once a month can be tolerated. But when that stuff starts gushing like a river, without yield, without reason, without MERCY, for 18 straight days, a man has to pull the plug on the relationship and look for love elsewhere, esp when his girlfriend shows up at his own hospital's ER with her "female problems". He just never hears the end of it from his colleagues, male and female alike.

Poetically correct disclaimer: Yes, "qualm" does not rhyme overtly with damn/scram - unless you have a thick hick accent and also say, "Cass-a-blank-a is a good dramm-a," - but there is such a thing called a "slant rhyme" (you see it a lot in rap music today since most of the slam-bam rhymes were used up by Run DMC, LL Cool J, and the other old-schoolers), and I have employed it here.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, Hornet. You pick on other people for their haikus and then have to get all pre-emptively whiney when you see that they can just as easily pick on yours."

Good point.


the HORNET
 
I have copied all of these down and will distribute to my fellow residents-thanks to all.

you sexy nurse you
we flirt until I find truth
ortho guys know you WELL

No BM for months?
"Bathroom in home does not work"
20K hosp bill

Arrive at 5-round
then 9 hours to sit on ass
General surg sucks

Girlfriend hours away
100 hour weeks-nurses
I know myself well
 
I love this thread. I have shamelessly copied it for the pre-allo kiddies.

great job, everyone.
 
Second-tri vag bleed?
Just where's that blood coming from?
Nope. Big kidney stone.
 
Stealthily editing "more 5-7-5 please" to "more 5-7-5" in order to keep the very 5-7-5 syllabic form you were stressing!

Seaglass, keepin' it real, indeed, on the down low!
 
I have a bug bite
It itches very badly
I need more Ultram


How did it get there?
I tripped and landed on it
Please don't pull too hard
 
docB said:
Poetic license born of sleep deprivation.

Dear god! Let him sleep.
Messing up the syllables;
Dosage could be next. ;)
 
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