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Jul 19, 2017, 06:35 AM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Unfortunately IME I've found healthcare professionals can be just as stigmatising as everyone else.
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Healthcare seems to attract a certain type of person. I noticed this when I was in an allied healthcare program. About 75% of the students were judgmental and superficial. They mainly cared about their egos and status. The rest genuinely wanted to help others and make a difference.
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Psychiatry, for example, doesn't always attract the best and brightest, but often the Drs who couldn't handle other areas of medicine. Four people that I personally know from medschool went into psychiatry, only one of them because she genuinely had an interest in it (unfortunately she later burnt out and left medicine completely). The other 3 went into psych because they couldn't do what they really wanted to do as it was too competitive and/or challenging.
Whilst psych is challenging emotionally, it's often seen as an 'easier' option in terms of on call rotas and the professional exams aren't seen as so difficult. In medschool we used to call those pdocs '40 percenters' ie they just scraped a pass through medschool. It's really terrible! However, there are a few good ones out there who are bright and interested in their profession and want to help their patients. Unfortunately IME you have to wade through a lot of garbage to find them :/
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This is true. A lot of them seem to either go into pathology or psychiatry.
After visiting a questionable psychiatrist, I decided to check his history on the CPSO website. He was a Canadian who went to medical school in eastern Europe and did his residency in Ontario. He started out in pathology and completed two years. After that he transferred to psychiatry. His residency was interrupted a few times after that. He also had no privileges.
Even though the gaps in his residency could be due to anything, they suggested, along with his poor interpersonal skills and rigid thinking, that a career in medicine was a poor fit.
My psychiatrist wanted to go into psychiatry, and it shows. She is genuinely interested in people and is open minded. I was very lucky to find her.
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