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Re: diazepam review

Posted by undopaminergic on February 29, 2020, at 12:02:52

In reply to Re: diazepam review, posted by Christ_empowered on February 29, 2020, at 8:58:32

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> sometimes, i think psychiatry is useless. maybe we should all just go to family doctors with psychopharmacology training, on top of their core curriculum? Szasz writes that a reasonably intelligent person can grasp psychopharmacology with about 2 weeks of dedicated study. Maybe he is...correct?!?!
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It has taken me years, but if I had had access to the right kind of teaching materials (eg. books) it would probably have taken less than a year. I have picked up a little here and a little there, and it has added up to an understanding that I perceive to surpass that of most (but far from all) psychiatrists. But Szasz has a point -- you do *not* need to go to medical school full-time for years in order to pick up a decent knowledge of psychopharmacology.

Good psychiatrists do have something that I lack, namely clinical experience. On the other hand, I have personal, first-hand, experience, which a lot, if not most, psychiatrists don't have. Reading anecdotal reports from patients (such as here on dr-bob.org) and doctors (eg. case histories in medical journals) can, to an extent, simulate clinical experience.

-undopaminergic


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