Richard M. Berlin, MD

I read Dear Provider in a letter from a health care company. Provider is a fine word, and I’ve always felt proud to provide for my family—but the company doesn’t know guys from Jersey are sensitive.

The past is prologue riding close behind. Give up your practice? And do what instead? Psychiatrists are not the retiring kind!

I imagine Emma on a winter night, an eight-year-old curled fireside in a wing chair, proving her skill with weeping willows...

My musician patient in a fetal curl, Tchaikovsky’s “Meditation” plays an endless loop against this climate controlled conspiracy of monitors and machines...