Videos

"Patients get better, treatments end, openings appear in my schedule and I leave them open..."


"Contemplating Retirement"

"Moments like that, you can love this country..."

Passing through Albuquerque

"We ate, and talked, and went to bed, And slept. It was a miracle."


Summer Kitchen

Articles

"Grappelli’s Smile"

is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for

On this September 11th—and always—we strive for unity... 

Unity

"If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness..."


At the Pitch

Decisions

"...Then twenty years swing by and I’m riffing chords on my father’s old D’Angelico, Grappelli’s photo clipped to the stand, an image captured the night he owned the ballroom stage, me on the dance floor..."


Grappelli’s Smile

Dr Pies is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Editor in Chief Emeritus of 

 (2007-2010). Dr Pies is the author of several books. A collection of his works can be found on

“Summer, like the body, bends slowly toward its end…”

Summer, Like the Body

"I'm thinking about how good it is to have been sick, to have been turned inside out..." 


Poetry