Fetch the sutures and the scissors

It’s time to patch this patient up

Ready, steady the hand that guides

and let us now take haste

But wait, just where does that connect?

Is this a bone meant to be broken?

What of all this spare muscle tissue?

Does this joint hang freely now?

Do I really know the way

this is meant to operate?

Did we get the consent forms

with dotted I’s and all that jazz?

Can I truly say that I know

better than the patient here?

Or am I flying blind again?

Physician, heal thyself He said

Maybe I just forgot to listen…