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Poetry
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 . . .
Let Evening Come: An Invocation
June 04, 2020
Dr Berlin offers salve to the soul with a recitation of "Let Evening Come," by Jane Kenyon, and then some.
The Road Home From the Hospital
June 03, 2020
When the AIDS epidemic was at its peak, Dr Berlin wrote his own version of "Spring and All," in which he speaks directly to the original author, Wayne Carlos Williams. There are parallels to coronavirus in these works.
Tchaikovsky: Music and Melancholy
June 02, 2020
A virtuoso concert pianist and psychiatrist's "play" on the role of music in healing and the influence of psychological and medical factors on the creative output of the great composers in music history.
The Nurses in Our Lives
June 02, 2020
In this series of recitations, Dr Richard Berlin will present a poetry with special meaning for all of us, as we cope with the COVID-19 crisis. He continues the theme of praising our nursing colleagues with Dorianne Laux's poem "Nurse."
A Question of Character
May 19, 2020
Beethoven’s baton, the genius "gone mad," deaf to criticism, his joy as he conducted, all the notes he trusted the orchestra to play . . .
The Love for our Work
May 01, 2020
A poem titled Loves by American poet Stephen Dunn inspired me to write a poem about everything I love about my work as a doctor.