Kindness Toward Patients

MENTAL HEALTH MINUTE

Dr Berlin recites poetry that speaks to the relationship between doctor/nurse and a patient, such as Nurse's Pockets by Cortney Davis.

When patients are told they’re dying

they say something simple:

I’ve had a good life or Who will feed my cats?

It seems harder on the doctor-

he waits outside the door, stalling,

until the patient confronts him.

So, Doc, they say, What’s the verdict?

For the rest of Nurse's Pockets, please visit Academic Medicine.