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Rated: 18+ · Poetry · Philosophy · #2352054

Molière was a French playwright who wrote about pretension in healthcare.

Molière

Wrote a play about
                  healthcare,
Poking fun at pretension.
And in the fourth
                  presentation
he collapsed.

Should be time for his
                  welfare,
Doctors pissed by pretension,
And in their wrath,
                  hesitation
he then lapsed.

Proved him right with his
                  cold stare
Doctors displayed pretension,
And in his death's
                  disillusion
--we all gasped.

Poet's note:  Pretension in healthcare is the performance of authority, certainty, or compassion that is not fully earned or justified by actual knowledge, outcomes, or care.
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