Posted by Deneb on September 26, 2005, at 17:46:41
OK, I did some snooping about and I found out when my p-docs graduated from medical school and for how long they had been practicing psychiatry for.
It turns out that the p-doc who is on maternity leave has been practising psychiatry for approx. 7 years whereas this new guy I'm seeing has been practising for...get this, approx. 24 years! Yikes...that's longer than I've been on this Earth.
OK, obviously I haven't seen enough p-docs to generalize the difference between old and young ones, but so far I've discovered that my younger p-doc is much more into the psychotherapy stuff and this new guy is much more trigger happy with the prescription pad.
Is this consistent with how psychiatry has evolved throughout the ages?
What other things should I expect from an older pdoc? Wow, 24 years seems like forever to me!
Deneb
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