RICHARD BRONSON, M.D. is on the Faculty of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and the Long Island Poetry Collective (LIPC). Dr. Bronson has received the Poem of the Year Award of the American College of Physicians and is the author of three collections of poetry Search for Oz, Silent Music, and Passage.