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“This is Just to Say”
by William Carlos Williams
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In new appreciation of our dedicated doctors and nurses, I’m sharing a poem, a wonderful memoir and a sassy romance.
In between the organic chemistry and the human anatomy classes, young doctors and nurses in training often discover William Carlos Williams. A poet even before he was a physician, Williams wrote about enduring love, the symmetry of beauty and nature — and a delightful verse about swiping the last delectable fruit that begins: “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox…”
A few years ago, a medical resident who knew she’d be lost without the patience and wisdom of the nurses recommended Christie Watson’s memoir to me. Watson is a British nurse turned writer. Her memoir, “The Language of Kindness,” is remarkably compassionate and thoughtful — even in the most painful of moments, as when Watson describes cleaning the body and washing the hair of a child who died in a fire.
And finally, I just couldn’t pass up this story since so many of us have become Fauci fans.
When journalist and novelist Sally Quinn was creating the irresistible doctor who would romance her main character in her novel, “Happy Endings,” she made her charmer in the image of Dr. Anthony Fauci!
Yes: The same Anthony Fauci who is running the coronavirus task force. Quinn told CNN recently that when she met Fauci years ago, “I thought he was brilliant… (and) I thought he was really sexy.”
My doctor- and nurse-inspired must-reads this week are a poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams; a memoir, “The Language of Kindness” by memoirist Christie Watson; and a Fauci-inspired romance in Sally Quinn’s “Happy Endings.”
—Kerri Miller |
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