The stigma of becoming a psychiatrist

I’m coming out, but it isn’t what you’re thinking.  I’m writing this to finish answering a question that I was asked 25 years ago by an attending physician.  He was a Scotsman with a ruddy complexion and it was early in my third year of medical school.  I had been up since 4am rounding on patients and then assisting on a general surgery case.

Answering the esoteric questions the Scotsman posed had …

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