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Why poetry? As the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai said, “When words fail, that’s when poetry begins.”

Silent and Solemn Spring 

Nurses are on the front line in the care of COVID-19 patients, and for many years Dr Berlin has admired and resonated with the poetry of nurse practitioner Cortney Davis. Here: a recitation of two of her poems.

Honoring Our Nurses

Richard Berlin, MD, recites "COVID-19," by Dr Chris Fitzpatrick. It is a series of haikus strung together to highlight the many moments in hospitals that are happening everywhere in the world. This. Very. Moment.

A Further Shore Is Reachable

His widow sues. Five night-sweat-years later, our colleague wins in court, because he has good documentation.

Lucky

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

Slipping out of quarantine, we walk hand in hand. Comforting words that this, too, shall pass.

Silent Spring

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.

Dear Provider

Psychiatry Comic: Identity Crisis

A phone rings on stage like a flashback and we return to our fantasy that characters can die and revive, that the show must go on . . .

The Show Must Go On

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

Psychiatrists Are Not the Retiring Kind

Our daughter’s first day of Med School ten years ago, computer charged, a career choice . . .

Poetry