Doctors practice medicine
And their practicing never stops
Except when like their patients
They too finally drop.
Seems to me we take a risk
When to the doctor we go,
Since they are always practicing,
What do they really know?
Be it a surgeon or physician
Practice is their thing,
At what point do they get real
And stop this rehearsing?
They get degree after degree
And still they practice medicine,
They practice on me and on you too
We all go out on a limb.
“Doctors practice medicine,”
A father once told his son,
“Don’t you ever go to one,”
And he was not making fun.
While doctors practice medicine
Lawyers have a law practice,
The difference lies in the parts of speech
But they too are a risk.
With both it must be a practice
Because we always have to go back,
Forwards and backwards we must go-
A dent in our pay pack.
Teachers don’t practice teaching
Postmen don’t have a postal practice,
They do what they have to do
With them it is not hit or miss.
But you’ll lie on a doctor’s bed
And he’ll knock and press and poke
And just for practicing medicine
He’ll demand of you some notes.
Lawyers are no different
They have a law practice,
But they see themselves as professionals
That will cleverly hit or miss.
Whether one or the other
You will still have to pay,
In order to sustain their law practice
That is their customary way.
It doesn’t matter their training
Neither the depth nor the height,
Practice is where they’re always at,
That certainly gives me a fright.
Please do not fault my spelling
I’ve been Americanized,
The English spelling is atrocious-
Their spelling I despise.
Noun and verb are different,
Why can’t they be the same?
They come over better with the ‘c’
‘The ‘s’ sounds a little lame.
But whether practice or practise
It’s what these professionals do,
Doctors practice medicine
But lawyers have a practice too.
If practice makes perfect
Why can’t they achieve perfection?
I promise to ask a doctor or lawyer-
One must answer my question.
Stewart Russell © October 26, 2020
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