The Trenches: Life In Martin Benfey, MD
Can J Rural Med 1996; 1 (2): 92
With a silent gasp reinforcements are called,
And together the team works.
Comrades in arms.
And now this day is done, and a small battle won,
Your colleagues nod and say "good job."
Happy that, today, not they but you were the one.
In the line of fire.
Later, instead of a medal the government refuses pay,
Insisting: "Justify your action." Justify your presence.
"Give us the code." They say.
(What code to save a life?)
And to think that you volunteered to serve,
In the trenches.
© 1996 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
Elke Bzdurreck-Benfey