advancing medical technologies.
heal, diminish fear; making real, priceless
promises of life each day, each year;
and I yearn . . ."
Welcome to Maternl.
Maternl, my personal website with its unique programs and blog reflects my career-long profession as a physician, an obstetrician committed to the physical and emotional health of women, children and families.
Maternl is enabled by the agents of our humanity, empowered by our words, our language and ancestral songs of promise to heal when we cannot cure; the ultimate challenge to the bond between patient and doctor. In particular, Maternl recognizes and offers the attention and empathies required when parents experience the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal deaths.
Maternl introduces my personal philosophy and original poetry which above all enables me to ask why even when we already understand how. Poetry permits me as a doctor of medicine, witness to the frailties of our humanity, to abet healing through the very core of what makes us human; our language and our personal emotions.
I believe that we who have taken the "Oath" to practice our sacred profession of medicine and we who have committed ourselves to the healing arts must do so with the imperative to respect the sanctity of health for all those we treat - with a sense of high privilege-for they are the flesh and blood and souls of our humanity - past, present and future - and we, by our choice, their guardians. Here at Maternl, I, through my writings, poems, personal thoughts and unique programs strive to promote these tenets.
Michael R Berman MD MBI FACOG
February 08, 2026
"The body, impotent to maladies;
thirsts for harmonies of cure by gentle
ways and artful skills to dignify countless
souls' infirmed and helpless wills . . . "
health, Hygeia, the symbol of Hygeia Health Systems, LLC