Wednesday 28 July 2010

A thought about the future of psychiatry

Psychiatrist at the moment are really like GPs in the sense that most
of them cover a wide range of disorders. In physical medicine there's a
lot more specialisation and that makes sense. I'm not sure why it hasn't
happened in psychiatry. There are psychiatrists who specialise in
certain disorders or groups but there's no specialisms like there's
opthamology or geriatrics or whatever. If an individual wants to find a
specialist psychiatrist there really aren't many routes available.

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