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Reviewing History and Options

What is the first thing you share with your patient when you are about to prescribe a new medication?

In this episode of The Big Q, Richard M. Berlin, MD, shares the discussions he has with patients when he introduces them to new medications.

Dr Berlinis an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years in Psychiatric Times™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.”

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