Subpoena Blues

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

I got them old subpoena blues

Too many patients with legal problems

leading to too many subpoenas to testify

I dont need these during the summer

They be messing with my golfing

why cant the just plead guilty

and not drag me into it

then there are those ones

where you go to the courthouse only to find

Its been rescheduled

and thus another subpoena

then there are those ones over 2 yrs old

and the DA asks

do you remember this person in your ER

I certainly dont think so

he was probably drunk

all scraped up

puking, cussing, cursing, combative

now he is sitting there in a suit and tie

all clean and nice and respectable

and you expect me to remember him or her

another day of golf wasted

I guess you can call this an ode to DA's

Or an ode to an incompetent legal system

Or an ode to where time does make you forget the criminal

To me its an ode where I miss a day of golf.

For a court appearance

where I have to wear a suit

polish my shoes

shave my face, comb my hair

but worse of all

I doesn't let me get a round of golf in

I hate subpoenas

I hate DA's

Have you noticed the only attorneys who work in the DA's office, are

the ones that cant get a job anywhere else, because they are to dumb

to work anywhere else. DA does it mean District Attorney, or does it

really mean Dumbass Attorney.

And yes I'm bitter about this

[BabyRN2Be]

bravo!! great poetry, tom! i loved it!

[Lurksalot, BSN, RN]

:roll

very funny! I hope you do not get called too much this summer!

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Tom - I just left the ER after 10 years. I got called two weeks ago for a deposition of an incident that occurred in 2004. Without going into details, it turns out the pt was smoking crack cocaine in the hospital. I was asked if I remembered the pt (I took care of them in the ER)...hunh??? Uh no - I've probably taken care of several thousand patients since then! Gee whiz.

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

I havent been subpoenaed lately anyway