Diagnostic error:Impossible

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Diagnostic error: Impossible

 

Potent potions pills and powders

 purveyed by pagan proto priests

along with evil smelling lotions.

Distilled from strange repulsive beasts.

Unorthodox alternatives

 which seemed to work by faith alone

But modern doctors won’t forgive.

It is the sin you can’t atone.

Though if by chance you find a cure.

Your specialist will soon deny.

The diagnosis he was sure

 of with lordly certainty.

This the stance which he will take

 somebody else made a mistake.

 

05/11/2009

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