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 Headlong Act of Love (Podcast)
A poetry reading by psychiatrist Richard Berlin, MD.
Anatomy Lab (Podcast)
Our identity as physicians is the foundation for our careers as psychiatrists and the first step in our transition from layperson to doctor takes place in the anatomy lab.
If You Ask Me My Name (Podcast)
Listen to Richard Berlin, MD, recite one of his poems.
After the Party
Wild Night, after the cops came to shut the music down, after friends and family were headlights pointed toward home...
Einstein’s Happiest Moment -for Susanne
"Einstein’s happiest moment...occurred when he realized...a falling man falling...beside a falling apple..."
Advice From Moody’s Diner
AUDIO A good apple pie fixes every pain. Your grandmother baked them to be sure you’d know- Cinnamon for heartbreak, cloves for shame . . .
The Garden of Eden Poem
Today when the ground was no longer...
Good Fathers Poem
Poetry of the Times--Good Fathers.
Our Medical Marriage (Original)
Poetry of the Times Our Medical Marriage
St. Vincent's Hospital ER, 9/11
We waited for the broken and the burned.
If You Ask Me My Name - 2001
If You Ask Me My Name - Poetry of the Times
Hospital Food Original
Hospital Food - Poetry of the Times
PTSD - Poem
PTSD - Poetry of the Times
