Look what I found

October 2025 | Vol. 69, No. 3
Written by Richard Donze, DO, MPH

Ron stopped by after cleaning
out his OR locker he’d gone
to 3 days a week 2 years ago
but his last case was today

“Look what I found” an older
logo’ed set of scrubs a dog-
eared Arnold Henry’s Extensile

Exposure from the orthopod’s
canon a tableside photo of his
first total joint in “my Dave

suit” the now stale reference
to the time-traveling whoosh-
breathing HAL-quieting pro-

tagonist’s outfit in 2001:A
Space Odyssey but at the 1972
Grant’s Atlas I twinned it with

my bookshelf copy same tealish
Rembrandt “Anatomy Lesson”
cover as we recalled our similar

vintage but he is “I am so done”
done while I am still doing after
watching him carry the artifacts

box to his car and drive off I re-
shelf my Grant’s and find I can’t
wake my screen probably the

machine ghost timed me out
and logged me off unless some
24 years older Dave is at it again
turning keys to shut me down.