Holiday dose
Serotonin is in the air,
Spreading joy everywhere.
Patients are starting to disappear,
It looks like Christmas is here.
Before Holidays
The unit is humming a different tune.
It sounds like patients don’t need Risperidone.
Holidays are approaching soon-
Time for chocolate truffles and scones.
Maryam Tariq MD is Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow. She wrote these poems while on an inpatient unit over the holiday season. She was inspired by the fleeting joys, and subtle rhythms of life in the unit.
Maryam Tariq, MD