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Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"...So far the days keep coming. Seize the day gently as if you loved her.”
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Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 23 years in Psychiatric TimesTM in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
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