Enough
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a host of barriers to practicing medicine from obscuring our faces to increasing patient hostility and overall frustration. In his poem, “Enough”, Dr. Jay Kaplan, past president of ACEP and a national leader in physician wellness, examines this loss of connection and how we can fight back by spreading compassion and hope.
Enough
By Jay Kaplan, MD
Enough
I’ve had enough
enough fear
enough grief
enough sadness
enough uncertainty
maybe not enough anger
and it goes on
and truth
there is little I can do
other than to continue to spread
what hope I can muster
what love I have in my heart
to as many people as I can
to live with integrity
and gratitude
and
to consistently remind myself that
the glass is half-full
if I allow it to be so