Richard Berlin, MD, encourages you to think about the direction of your life as he reads a poem by Connie Wanek. Her newest book of poetry, Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems, is available now.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 23 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called "Poetry of the Times." He is Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.