Posted by akc on September 10, 2001, at 20:30:33
In reply to Re: Its time to merge Psychiatry into Neurology » Cam W., posted by susan C on September 10, 2001, at 19:42:01
Working off a thread above, I am addicted to my therapist, a psychologist, and love every moment of it. Mr. (or Ms.) NLFAmerica -- I do believe you are giving a one size fits all approach -- and I do believe that the problems that exist and the world is much broader than that. As the saying would go, can't we all just get along?
akc
> have psychiatrists go to school longer...add neurology, have them all take more school, never get out, lock them in cages and zap them with electrodes, participate in their own experiments. I am not so sure that redefineing anything would help. Educating medical consumers will. Getting someone to help you as a medical advocate, don't be alone, is top on my list. Just because some of us aren't immediately helped by 'take two asprin and call me in the morning' doesnt mean that the baby should go out with the bath water.
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> Just mumbling to myself in the corner,
> The lab mouse
> Susan C
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> > NFL - Hmmm.... Where would you put PSTD, CFS, and neuropathic pain? It is true that when one figures out the "cause" of a psychiatric illness, it is shuffled off to another disicipline (eg. neurosyphilis or pellagra), but I think that it is premature to move all remaining psychiatric illnesses to neurology (although many should be).
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> > - Cam
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