Poetry

The Tarts

Richard M. Berlin, MD

May 15, 2018

I wanted this to be like a fairy tale walk in the woods before kids, careers, blood clots and bone mets...

Birthday Party

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Apr 23, 2018

Green hills patched with April, snow and I’ve chosen to celebrate. with a full slate of patients.

The Juggler

Richard Berlin, MD

Mar 21, 2018

After he juggles three chainsaws and spins twenty plates balanced on sticks, he moves to the grand finale: ten Bowler hats tossed across the arena and stacked on the ringmaster’s head.

Psychiatry Comic: Anger Management Clinic

Jonny Hawkins

Mar 5, 2018

When's your teed off time?

We wrote through the night, between moonlight and morning, admissions and discharges, wrote when phones stopped ringing, when pagers stopped paging. We were raw, opening ourselves to chaos and mystery...

Prior Auths

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Jan 21, 2018

Funny how fast we become prisoners with lost convictions as we fill out the forms, patients getting sicker while they wait.

Psychiatry Comic: Santa Therapy

Jon Carter

Dec 20, 2017

A therapeutic approach to the holiday wish list.

Wound Healing

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Dec 18, 2017

My doctor-wife squeezes her needle-nose tweezers and lifts the tiny knots high enough to snip with surgical scissors...

Psychiatry Comic: Holiday Hugs

Jonny Hawkins

Nov 21, 2017

Please! No more group hugs!

Boogie Child

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Nov 17, 2017

Our time was Thursday, 5 o’clock, my psychiatrist’s door always opened wide, him wearing a wool sweater, sipping tea, lights dimmed to an endless twilight...