The blogging, haiku-writing doctor

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You probably haven’t heard about Lucy Hornstein, a family physician who used to live in the District, has been practicing in the Philadelphia area for 30 years and has been blogging for about a decade.

Oprah magazine once called her “Musings of a dinosaur” blog one of the “four doctor’s blogs to read now,” but it’s not clear who noticed: In one typically self-deprecating post, Hornstein refers to her “faithful readers (both of you).”

But she keeps on keeping on, and she’s still selling the self-published paperback that caught our attention — “Medical Haiku: A Book of Silly Poems.” A couple of examples, which indeed fit the 5-7-5 syllable count of the Japanese genre:

Art of medicine;

Amusing the patient while

Nature takes its course.

and

Ophthalmalolgist;

Eye physician and surgeon;

No one spells it right

They sure don’t. Let’s try again.

Ophthalmologist.