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Focus on New Technology:
••Winter 2001/Vol. 5 No.1

Editors' CommentsPermanente Abstracts

Soul of the Healer
Health Systems
A Word from the Medical Directors
External Affairs
Book Reviews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soul of the Healer


 

Sharon Carter - Still Life

"Still Life"

The curtains are closed. The room
smells of chrysanthemums

and baby powder. A wet sheet
pastes itself to the bed, drying

slowly in faint brown rings.
The commode is overturned.

Morphine tablets lie
deliquescing

beside an empty glass.
Someone knew he was

not coming back, unplugged
the TV and left.

 

Digital Image and Poem
By Sharon Carter, MD

Previously published "Spindrift" 2000

 

Back to Soul of the Healer Index | To More Art by Dr Carter

 

 

 


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