I received this letter via the Internet and have reprinted it with permission of the writer. Its eloquence describes the situation for so many clinicians in the private sector that elaboration would demean the sense of frustration, fear and anger. Yet, through her trouble one can feel her clinician’s eternal optimism.

The entire poem In Flanders Fields by Lt. Col. John McCrae can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry/Flanders.html.