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Re: Is diagnosis important ?

Posted by stjames on February 27, 2003, at 10:49:23

In reply to Re: Is diagnosis important ? » stjames, posted by ace on February 26, 2003, at 18:54:43

> > > > A GP cannot diagnose mental illnesses.
> > >
> > > That is NOT correct.
> >
> > Well, if you want to receive treatment from someone who has no training in treating mental illness, go right a head !
>
> Not true again. Each doctor has to study for 1 year psychiatry as part of their training. In addition a LOT of psychiatric patients DO get treated from family docs. For instance, my family doc has over 30 psych patients. In addition family docs have to keep up on current literature on ALL specialties. They have a much broader knowledge of medicine than pdocs and, in my opinion, are much more well balanced ( In my time I have seen over 10 pdocs - 2 of them were caring and honest, the rest were patronizing, lazy, rude, and standoffish. I will never see a psychiatrist again. The last one I saw, and this was the FINAL straw, stated 'all your friends must think your a weirdo")
>
> Ace

1 year of study, yikes ! How about several years of practice in seeing patients with mental illness ? That menas a lot more than 1 year of study.


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