SPOTLIGHT -
March 27th 2025
"All redeeming Nature knows, You cannot stop the spring."
March 25th 2025
A psychiatrist reflects on the challenges we weather and the enduring search for hope and unity.
March 18th 2025
"I guessed heart failure. The answer was pneumonia."
February 27th 2025
"Connect me to all children, Under undue distress all ‘round the world, Shaping the future of our warring lands..."
February 13th 2025
"It is the winter of chest pain and snow, all the drunks smashed through the ER doors..."
A Humanity Lesson From the Mouths of Babes
A child's perspective, innocent and honest, serves as a good reminder of our biases.
Traumatic Wounds
In light of current events, how can psychiatry support rectifying social injustices and foster understanding and inclusivity?
Tonsure
"Forever you find your father in other faces..."
Hope, Equity, and the AMA
A psychiatrist's perspective on the AMA interim meeting.
The Forgotten Verb
Words, and their ideals, can help heal.
A Psychiatrist's Wellness Puzzle
It's important to make time to fit in the pieces of your wellness puzzle.
Listening to Terry Gross
"Before I knew my own voice, I listened to yours while we learned our trades..."
The Zoom Reading
"...They speak in poetry. Do they know I am there, listening?"
Sea-Fever
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky..."
Colliding Forces and the Human Psyche
Reflections on the impact love and hatred can have on the human psyche.
A Monarch Butterfly: Hope, Transformation, and Rebirth
Taking a moment to learn from nature...
A Game of Quotas
Dealing with diversity double-speak...
The Dance Between Fathers and Daughters
There is a delicate and precious dance between a father and his daughter...
A Psychiatrist’s Prayer for All
Perhaps with time and commitment, this psychiatrist's dreams for a better world for patients and all mankind will come to fruition.
A Barred Owl
"The warping night air having brought the boom, Of an owl's voice into her darkened room..."
Psychiatric Reflections on Black Incarceration
Can psychiatrists help be the champion for those behind bars?
Variant Party
A poet's reflections on COVID-land's relentlessness grip on society...
Prompts for Doctors Who Write
"Write yourself scared the first day of med school, dying to cure the world..."
Prompts (for Doctors Who Write Poetry)
Being a poet isn't a 9 to 5 job.
In Honor of a Legacy: Colin Powell
Inspired by a life well-lived...
Trauma, Resilience, and Justice for Those in the Criminal Justice System
With so many stories of trauma associated with the criminal justice system, it is time to reexamine how this population is treated.
The Need for Rapid Resuscitation
It's time to take a deep breath...
Nursing Home Frontline
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.
Walk With Nature
Nature can bring the ultimate treasure: contentment.
World Mental Health Day 2021
Honoring World Mental Health Day...
Infant Moments
Backyard Mercy
"A fruit fly fell in my fine crystal glass, half full of five-dollar wine..."
Our Identity Puzzle
Work can be rewarding and bring meaning, but should not define us...
A Bridge of Faith
Sometimes to find your place of tranquility, you must cross a bridge of faith...
A Psychiatrist's New Season
A psychiatrist reflects on career changes as he embarks on a new adventure.
