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Blog|Videos|May 19, 2023
"Spring"
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring..."
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Any Good Poem
Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.
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