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Dear intensive care provider
  1. Upreet Dhaliwal
  1. Correspondence to Dr Upreet Dhaliwal, Medical Education Unit, Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi-95, India; upreetdhaliwal{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2012-010347

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    Please don't ask me to leave;

    Don't make me wait outside while you do

    All the things that you're trained to do

    That will bring her back from the brink of death.

    Let me hold her hand a little longer;

    I won't be in the way at all;

    Just quietly, quietly, I'll sit, eyes closed,

    Willing life back into her ravaged body.

    Please …

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.