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.
