A Patient's Patience... for Universal Healthcare

"A Patient's Patience, Patent Pending (My Vote On Election Day)"

Patients' patience, patent pending- pouring out estimations
Pandering- lying, maybe; miserable mornings mourning decimations
Poor, uninsured, 'needy'? needing what? doctors or brothers, sisters
Absent from voting on election day- nursing selves, circling- blisters
Always burn until they are healed- and once done healing re-blister
Adding up to calluses- still feeling pain- anxious about the direction wished for
Them- wondering, worried, willing to make a change but they still remain
Tied, tethered, terrified- talking to staff, not the doctors with insane
Time slots, case loads- back and forth carrying charts- essentially ensuring
Imminent and immediate endangerment- not for lack of caring, only enduring
In a dutiful disaster of paperwork ploys, 'diagnosing'- 'scripting'- a 'cure'?
Incompetent? no, only overworked and weary- working diligently with pure
Empathy- errors induced only by an overload, understaffed and racing
Entangled in webs of worthless phone tag while their patients are pacing
Emptied or enraged by over-medication- conversations among patients ensue
Needling one another, v