Posted by CareBear04 on January 19, 2005, at 20:57:55
In reply to Re: What Is Best Anti-Anxiety Med In Your Opinion? » phillipa, posted by ace on January 19, 2005, at 20:30:22
ace-- how cool! your training sounds exciting, as does the fact that you'll be in clinical psychiatry relatively soon.
can i ask what country you're in. from what i know about the american medical system from my boyfriend or sister, it doesn't sound like you're training in the states.
i didn't know the percentage of pdocs with previous psych experience, but it makes much sense. i read in a book that "psychiatrists specialize in their own defects." that makes sense. if not their own psych problems, then maybe that of their family members or friends. my previous pdoc told me that his father was bipolar. he also told me that i'd make a hell of a psychopharmacologist, though since i've never known a good psychopharm dr, i didn't know whether to take it as a compliment. he said it was-- that i have the memory to bring to mind the details of all the meds and the experience to sift through the extraneous and pull out the info relevant to medicating. i personally hate psychiatry after many bad experiences with it, but when that pdoc told me that he wouldn't be at all surprised to see me at a conference in ten years, i couldn't really deny it. i have a tendency to root for the underdog and to fight and defend the people who seem most helpless and hopeless, and pscyhiatry certainly has a lot of people fitting that profile.
ace, i think it's great that you're going into psychiatry. i think we definitely could use some more empathy in the field. i've appreciated it when my pdoc has admitted to using some drug or another, though usually ones like propranolol that are taken for many reasons.
funny about psych residents these days. i've only come across them in the hospital, and it's surprising that over 2/3 of the ones i've seen have been women. not only are they women, but in one psychiatric residency program, especially, the women were all really good looking, which made me wonder whether the residency director is man with an eye for pretty women. also, it seems like psych residents are all really thin and fashionable, especially since they don't have to wear the white coats. this paragraph is completely unnecessary, but it's something i noticed, so i thought maybe others could relate.
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