When we are ill, vulnerable and in need of care and although our spirits may fade and our viscera may bleed, we are enabled by the agents of our humanity empowered by ancestral song and promise.

The work of MATERNL concerns the human experiences and dimensions of healthcare: hope and despair, celebration and sorrow, healing when we cannot cure.
MATERNL reflects my career as a physician, an obstetrician, and shares my personal philosophy, thoughts and 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.

Michael R Berman MD MBI FACOG
Founder and President
July 19, 2025