Good Doctor, Bad Doctor

Doctors come with many specialties,

but I divide them in two types,

the good doctors and bad doctors.

Today I was teaching this concept,

to my 3.5-year-old son.

A good doctor is the one

who saw that I was having trouble

in delivering the baby,

that I could have died,

and decided to do emergency cesarean surgery,

to save both me and the baby.

That is a good doctor,

almost like God’s representative.

A bad doctor, to me,

is one who recommended

strong medicines, and steroids,

for my son’s eczema.

She could have been a good doctor

if she had asked simple questions:

“Could the carpet in your house be the culprit,

irritating the skin?

Why not try socks as a barrier?”

But instead, she put us in a loop,

of medicines, and follow-up visits.

I had to figure out the solution,

on my own, to curb inflammation,

for I don’t trust this kind of solution,

by bad doctors.