“All psychiatrists do is push drugs!” I have heard this repeatedly, from students, wary patients, even family members who don’t pick up on a carefully worded hint that they just might benefit from getting help.  For some reason, no one makes the same complaint about infectious disease specialists, or oncologists, though I wager that the success rates of our drug treatments are roughly equivalent. As a psychiatrist, I try to treat people ...

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“What about combined psychiatry-family medicine-neurology-internal medicine programs?  Should I try to do a triple board program in psychiatry-child psychiatry and pediatrics?” Every April, I field such questions from a slew of rising fourth year students who have become, to their surprise (and sometimes dismay), passionately interested in psychiatry. Psychiatry is a shortage specialty and psychiatric issues rank high among the challenges facing medical care systems here and around the world. For ...

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