You Will Not Believe This Poem Published By Top Medical Journal

Annals of Internal Medicine is a top-ranked medical journal published by the American College of Physicians. Its purpose is to keep physicians up to date on current practice, publish original research, and promote best practices in patient care to ensure the best possible medical care is provided. 

And, apparently, to boost the self-esteem of doctors who totally screw up by violating all the principles the journal is supposed to promote. 

A major medical journal published a POEM by an MD about forgetting that she was on call, not knowing how to perform the necessary procedure when she finally showed up late, and plausibly being responsible for that patient’s death.

She learns to forgive her laziness and… pic.twitter.com/WXqJPyevo6

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) May 22, 2026

A major medical journal published a POEM by an MD about forgetting that she was on call, not knowing how to perform the necessary procedure when she finally showed up late, and plausibly being responsible for that patient’s death.

She learns to forgive her laziness and incompetence by shopping online, watching TV, and playing with her dog.

I’m not kidding.

This was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a serious, high-impact journal run by the American College of Physician that publishes clinical guidelines, systematic evidence reviews, and methods papers.

The poem contains no indication of sorrow, regret, or taking responsibility for what happened.

This isn’t the message you’d want or expect a leading medical journal to elevate as part of its stated mission to “promote excellence in medicine.”

Unbelievable.

I was floored when I watched this video, and had to do my own due diligence before I wrote about this story. It seemed too on the nose, and while I trust Colin Wright almost implicitly, I still had to check it out for myself. 

The poem is real, and it really is about a physician healing her feelings about killing a patient due to her screw-up. She works at the University of Toronto. 

The publication of the poem itself is not “news,” in the sense that it happened this year. It is from 2025. But it is news in the sense that it tells you more about the state of medical education these days, which has become woke as hell, as I have written many times, and way too focused on irrelevant or even dangerous issues like respecting indigenous “science” and racial justice. And the feelings of doctors as well. 

It would be one thing if the point were helping doctors who have failed to save patients cope with what must be a traumatic experience for many, but this amounts to justifying malpractice and focusing on the malefactor’s feelings. 

Not every doctor’s mistake is due to negligence, of course. Medicine is hard, and sometimes you play the odds. This was not the case here. She should never have been near the patient, obviously. She was unprepared, and apparently irresponsible as well. 

I don’t want doctors who keep practicing to “heal” from such things. I want them out of medicine. Apparently, that’s not the general feeling at the Annals of Internal Medicine journal. 

That’s scary. 

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