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Cloudy Eyes, Chapped Lips, Icy Air
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"...remember this one life is a gift each of us was handed and told to open..."
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Richard Berlin, MD, shares poetry from James Crews, evokingm imagery of the cold weather. The full poem can be found
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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