{"id":1789,"date":"2023-01-01T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:48:02","slug":"poem-a-new-year-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2023\/01\/01\/poem-a-new-year-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: A New Year Resolution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for end of life care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1813\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2022\/12\/unnamed.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>A New Year Resolution.<\/h3>\n<p>Sparklers shine, smoke all around,<br \/>\nFireworks leap as corridors fill<br \/>\nManager\u2019s myopically seeing only the bill,<br \/>\nDesperate searching, no solution to be found.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is burning down.<br \/>\nNo-one knows who to blame,<br \/>\nMatrons look and frown.<br \/>\nBut all around us leaps the flame.<\/p>\n<p>Chief execs in ivory towers<br \/>\nShout instructions like we are gardeners<br \/>\nWho forgot to tend the flowers,<br \/>\nHow redundant we\u2019ve become<br \/>\nAt least for management, it\u2019s all fun.<\/p>\n<p>The gardens grow statues<br \/>\nLike metal mushrooms<br \/>\nEach one another fuse,<br \/>\nWhilst all around the corridors fill with fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors and nurses,<br \/>\nAll armed with a bucket,<br \/>\nThe buckets have holes, better for purses.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s almost enough to say F***-it.<\/p>\n<p>This ditty is light<br \/>\nBut the message is earnest<br \/>\nIf we don\u2019t start to fight<br \/>\nWe will all lose our rights.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for end of life care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust. &nbsp; A New Year Resolution. Sparklers shine, smoke all around, Fireworks leap as corridors fill Manager\u2019s myopically seeing only the bill, Desperate searching, no solution to be found. The hospital is burning down. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2023\/01\/01\/poem-a-new-year-resolution\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poets-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}