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Poetry
Creativity and Psychiatry: Leonard Bernstein
August 11, 2020
The musical prodigy is believed to have had a hyperthymic temperament, but he was also vulnerable to sweeping bouts of depression and guilt. Psychiatrist and virtuoso Richard Kogan, MD, puts music to storytelling, to explain the phenomenon of genius.
The Hard-Working Immigrant
August 11, 2020
We come for freedom and the chance to live the American dream.
Progress
July 24, 2020
A million doctors on fire, three million scorched nurses beside them, burned out as the flames progress.
Immigrant
June 22, 2020
Grandpa Murray, rags to riches, American big shot, the man who dreamt even bigger for his first grandson when he placed a doctor’s bag in my crib . . . the proudest man at my med school graduation.
Chocolate-Flavored PTSD
June 05, 2020
Frank A. Clark, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville, SC, presents a timely slice of poetic history.
Runner’s Paradox
June 05, 2020
Fangs dripping of bigotry hasten to attack human black deer. Such is a line in the work of this African American psychiatrist.
Coughs That Echo Across the World
June 05, 2020
Drama for the day, the telephone rings, spring blossoms, senior year is sad, Mother Earth takes revenge, praying for Sully to land us on the Hudson . . .