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Any Good Poem
Richard Berlin, MD, shares Ada Limón's poem "How To Triumph Like a Girl." Limón, like Berlin, is a winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize.
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.