I think the meaning of “Admission” in this poem’s title is that people working in the medical filed have to write down the truth and only the truth. In a medical report, they are obligated to write down the illnesses, bruises, and conditions, not how the patients ended up with them. They might know that someone abused a patient, but they can’t do anything about it, except to treat their wounds and hope that the patient will be fine, when they know the patient wouldn’t be until something is done to the abuser. Nothing can be done if the patients don’t acknowledge the abuse, and most of the time they don’t because they are afraid that something might happen to them if they told the truth or if it is one of their family members. The nurse found
