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"A Psychiatrist’s Guitar"
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"...when skilled hands and callused fingertips pick sweet equations where practice becomes song."
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Any Good Poem
Richard Berlin, MD, shares his poem, "
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 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 Tender Fences.
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