Courses of Treatment

A world of scalpels…

Wry Welwood
Scrittura
Published in
3 min readMay 13, 2021

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surgical instruments.
Image by Dominik Karch from Pixabay

A well-designed bullet leaves the barrel, spinning, makes a small entrance wound, then fragments, mangling flesh. The exit wound is a large red crater.

Well-designed medical terminology rolls off the professional tongue, spinning, makes a small entrance wound in heart or brain or spirit, won’t know how much mangling is going on until there is an exit wound which does…

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Wry Welwood
Scrittura

Wise Old Man in training, writing about trauma, healing, nature, justice, humor, poems, stories and essays. Father, son, husband, brother, counselor. he/him/his