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|Videos|June 4, 2021
Day 29
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"...now i forget what day it is and still feel i’m running out of time..."
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Richard Berlin, MD, shares poetry by Jamila Woods. Her poem, "Day 29 (2020)," can be found in full
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 23 years inPsychiatric 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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