HIV Tencoversations for Health

And he had this look,
In his deep, diagnostic, brown eyes,
Which he could open,
As wide as the world.
Yet still focus on you,
With surgical precision,
Like an X ray,
His questions,
Cutting to the centre,
Of an issue, beneath the surface.
Yet glowing like embers,
Sparkling in a fire,
Waiting to flame a response,
An engagement with his patients.
As all good doctors,
Know their medicines,
They also know,
Their conversations,
To look, and diagnose,
With talk and listening.
And he gave one of those looks then,
One of his last.
“But isn’t there,
A basic responsibility,
For a doctor,
To talk to his patient,
About the underlying condition.
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