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Limerick Contest Week Two!

It’s the second week of our Limerick Contest! All this month, we’re soliciting limericks from our readership (and free range poets!) in a competition to see if we can find the best Medical Limerick EVER.

Here are the top three entries we’ve received this week. Make sure to vote for your favorite by leaving a comment sharing which one you thought was best. At the end of the month, we’ll be having a final vote to select the best of all the winning limericks! The winner receives an autographed copy of “This Won’t Hurt A Bit!” and fame and glory!

Without further ado:

Limerick A:

Nurse Nathan’s adroitness is stellar
when he wrestles a sticking umbrella.
Yet on a dance floor
He howls out, “No more!
This is killing my tricky patella!”

Limerick B:

A patient I had in Alberquerqe
claimed an allergy to cold turkey
A slice on his plate
Would make his stomach gyrate
And his movements grow terribly jerky!

Limerick C:

I once had a patient named Perkins
who adored eating pickles and gherkins
She found them so nice
Adored all their spice
and pickled her internal workin’s


Do You Have Poetry In Your Soul? ENTER THE CONTEST!

Here’s what you need to do:

Write a humorous limerick related to the world of nursing and patient care and send it to Cindy@journalofnursingjocularity.com Each week throughout January, we’ll be posting the best ones we receive and letting our readers vote for the best. All of the winning limericks will then be posted on January 31st, and readers will be able to each pick their favorite. The author who wrote the limerick that receives the most votes wins an autographed copy of Karyn Buxman’s This Won’t Hurt A Bit! And Other Fractured Truths in Healthcare and more importantly, fame and glory unmatched by any other honor available in the world of medical poetry today!

Don’t forget to vote! Leave a comment indicating which of the limericks are your favorite (Comments may take a while to appear so please only vote once!)

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Limerick Contest Week One

It’s the first week of our Limerick Contest! All this month, we’re soliciting limericks from our readership (and free range poets!) in a competition to see if we can find the best Medical Limerick EVER.

Here are the top three entries we’ve received this week. Make sure to vote for your favorite by leaving a comment sharing which one you thought was best. At the end of the month, we’ll be having a final vote to select the best of all the winning limericks! The winner receives an autographed copy of “This Won’t Hurt A Bit!” and fame and glory!

Without further ado:

Limerick A:

This patient’s a pain in the duodenum
With demands for both catheter and freedom.
So unable to cope
Nurse Bob swung his stethoscope,
Got her hypnotized larynx to be numb.

Limerick B:

My dementia patient was on the run,
Frantically searching for his gun.
“But why, David?” I asked with some alarm,
Wherefore he urgently grabbed me by the arm,
Said: “Don’t go outside, it’s not safe, Doc.
Out there in the garden is a man-eating croc.”
“Surely, David, that cannot be true”,
And he winked and assured me: “Don’t worry, Doc, I will shoot it for you!”

Limerick C:

Marie, who had failed intubation,
was called to assist respiration.
“If they want to breathe,”
that charming nurse seethed,
“they’ll have to await inspiration.”

Do You Have Poetry In Your Soul? ENTER THE CONTEST!

Here’s what you need to do:

Write a humorous limerick related to the world of nursing and patient care and send it to Cindy@journalofnursingjocularity.com Each week throughout January, we’ll be posting the best ones we receive and letting our readers vote for the best. All of the winning limericks will then be posted on January 31st, and readers will be able to each pick their favorite. The author who wrote the limerick that receives the most votes wins an autographed copy of Karyn Buxman’s This Won’t Hurt A Bit! And Other Fractured Truths in Healthcare and more importantly, fame and glory unmatched by any other honor available in the world of medical poetry today!

Don’t forget to vote! Leave a comment indicating which of the limericks are your favorite (Comments may take a while to appear so please only vote once!)

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