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|Videos|November 6, 2020
Completely and Confidently Cared For
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
How do you enter the patient's space, and are you cognizant of the energy you bring with you?
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Richard Berlin, MD, reads Cortney Davis's "Entering the Patient's Room," from her collection, I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected.
The full poem can be read
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 23 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called "Poetry of the Times." He is Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
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