SPOTLIGHT -
July 26th 2024
"My own dear love, he is all my world,—And I wish I’d never met him."
July 25th 2024
Explore a poem about death, grief, and the healing powers of the humanities.
July 19th 2024
"I was talking on the phone, walking steadier, noticed the tap, and after, the tap-step, a light knock, a knock like someone’s at the door come to visit..."
July 12th 2024
"...the beauty still intoxicating, the spirit of the research like a child swimming for the first time in the sea, awed..."
July 11th 2024
"By now I’ve lost track of time with this boy who reminds me of myself when I imagined becoming a doctor..."
The Trees of New Jersey
Here's to the lovely trees of Jersey, my home . . . town streets lined with linden and larch, . . . poplar and elm, flowered locusts scenting
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
I'm reviewing a left ventriculography from a man with chest pain, MI ruled out, his wife dead for a post-crash hour...
Einstein’s Happiest Moment (Podcast)
Einstein's happiest moment revealed.
Occupational Hazards
Needle sticks and night call, Hep B burrowing skin, bad smells, deep wounds, death, dying, dead wood...
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Two yellow feathers and a skull. . . drop from the sky and fall on the brown . . . scar of trail, a sharp-shinned hawk
Wounds (Podcast)
Each wound speaks its own language.
A Headlong Act of Love (Podcast)
A poetry reading by psychiatrist Richard Berlin, MD.
Anatomy Lab (Podcast)
Our identity as physicians is the foundation for our careers as psychiatrists and the first step in our transition from layperson to doctor takes place in the anatomy lab.
If You Ask Me My Name (Podcast)
Listen to Richard Berlin, MD, recite one of his poems.
After the Party
Wild Night, after the cops came to shut the music down, after friends and family were headlights pointed toward home...
Einstein’s Happiest Moment -for Susanne
"Einstein’s happiest moment...occurred when he realized...a falling man falling...beside a falling apple..."
Advice From Moody’s Diner
AUDIO A good apple pie fixes every pain. Your grandmother baked them to be sure you’d know- Cinnamon for heartbreak, cloves for shame . . .
The Garden of Eden Poem
Today when the ground was no longer...
Good Fathers Poem
Poetry of the Times--Good Fathers.
Our Medical Marriage (Original)
Poetry of the Times Our Medical Marriage
St. Vincent's Hospital ER, 9/11
We waited for the broken and the burned.
If You Ask Me My Name - 2001
If You Ask Me My Name - Poetry of the Times
Hospital Food Original
Hospital Food - Poetry of the Times
PTSD - Poem
PTSD - Poetry of the Times