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NORTH WEST WORDS<br />
SPRING / SUMMER <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE 9<br />
Euphemasia<br />
He spoke with grim aplomb<br />
A doyen of doctoral epithets<br />
It was an ‘adverse perinatal outcome’<br />
Commonly known as death<br />
The hospital was launching a review<br />
One of the internal kind<br />
The interviewer pressed for clarity<br />
A fog of nomenclature descended<br />
Procedural protocols would be parsed<br />
Pharmaceutical practices probed<br />
Obstetric choices examined along with<br />
Midwifery management patterns<br />
Seven fatalities over two years<br />
Rather a lot it would seem<br />
He struggled to appease the questioning zest<br />
Truth falls slowly, like feathers in a storm<br />
Administrative <strong>and</strong> clinical paradigms to be appraised<br />
Searching reviews <strong>and</strong> reports to be delivered<br />
Hypoxia, foetal cardiac distress <strong>and</strong> pre-eclampsia<br />
Deemed the suspects camouflaging the vagary<br />
The adverse perinatal outcome remains<br />
Patrick J. Cosgrove<br />
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