",[3] is a poem written in 1966 by Phyllis McCormack, then working as a nurse in Sunnyside Hospital, Montrose.

Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter.

[4] This story was corroborated by an article from the Daily Mail on 12 March 1998, where Phyllis McCormack's son wrote that his mother composed it in the 1960s, when she submitted it anonymously with the title "Look Closer Nurse" to a small magazine intended just for Sunnyside.

The next year, the poem was published in Chris Searle's poetry anthology Elders (Reality Press, 1973), without title or attribution.

[2] The poem, which paints a rather sad picture of a decrepit woman's final days in care, has been quoted in various works written for and about the caring professions in order to highlight the importance of maintaining the dignity of the lives of elderly patients.