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|Videos|September 17, 2020
On Being a Doctor
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
Is a doctor a healer, a confidante, a priest or rabbi, a turner of textbook pages, or a combination of all?
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MENTAL HEALTH MINUTE
I will say healer, priest,
turner of textbook pages,
searcher, listener, arrogant crow
costumed in white, reflecting moon.
My name is scared and foolish
and sometimes too tired to care.
I am death's reluctant lover,
a child's guide, mother, father,
hero and fool,
and if you like it simple,
doctor will do.
Dr Berlin is Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.
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