The Cost of Diagnosis

She lie in agony on the gurney, her cause of pain uncertain.
Beside her worried lover, 
her battered abdomen
concealing her broken heart.
Oh good doctor, 
would you risk irradiation of an unborn babe
to test your hypothesis?
Have you no other way
to mend her mind and body?
Alas, be not the crushing stallion?

- Orlin Serger, M1