Hi Hummingbird,

This is just to give you a brief background on a physician's training. I hope you don't mind. This might clear things up a little.

First of all, a person is considered a doctor as soon as they graduate from medical school and become an MD. From this point, they do a residency in their chosen field.


During residency the doctor acquires many, many hours of training seeing and treating patients. As they advance in a residency program, they also train medical students and lower level residents.

When doctors graduate from residency, they are new attending physicians. At this point, they have a lot of experience with treating patients and training med students and lower level residents.


The psychiatrist that I see is a new physician, and he has already seen hundreds of patients. I would definitely not worry. My new young doctor also teaches medical students and residents.

Sorry about the long explanation. I hope it helps a little.

I hope it works out with him. Please let us know how it goes.

I am doing alright. Thank you for asking. When I get the chance, I'll PM you about what happened. I am no longer friends with that person. But, I'll let you know.

GL on your new appointments!