It was years ago
At one institution
The program hosted
A transplant reunion
I told my cardiology brother
Wanna to know what he said?!
“Both patients are coming?”
I said, “they’re not all dead!”
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
Let’s start with leukemias
Each and every type
And lymphomas
Results justify the hype
Myeloma and amyloid
Waldenström too!
It helps plasma-cell disorders
Data show this to be true
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
Have blood count issues?
A patient with cytopenia?
Transplant can help
MDS and aplastic anemia
Myelofibrosis and
polycythemia vera
Which is known as PV
A transplant can be helpful
It’s easy to see
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
Thalassemia patients
As well as sickle-cell disease
Have benefits from transplant
Go home critics, please!
Even immunodeficiency disorders
Such as SCID and DiGeorge
Are amenable to transplant
A cure we can forge!
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
The autoimmune conditions
May respond as well
multiple sclerosis and
scleroderma
Great results we can tell
Investigating other uses
Crohn’s disease for example
The benefits of transplant
An idea you cannot trample!
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
So to all those doubters
I’ve seen the reality
Many, many survivors
Give transplant clarity
As a treatment of hope
And often cure
I’ll get off my soapbox
My motives are pure
We cure a lot of patients
Transplant’s our ammunition
To attack just about
Any condition
Recently I attended the Broadway show “Hamilton” and enjoyed how the show infused Hip-Hop into the telling of Alexander Hamilton’s life. I have enjoyed listening to the music from the show on CD/iPhone. The style of my poem is inspired by this blending of Hip-Hop into “Hamilton.” The poem extols the virtues of stem-cell transplantation; as a transplant physician, I have found that transplant has helped to cure many of my patients.