Hanging up the stethoscope

[psyguru]

---

Members don't see this ad.

There are specialists that would never ajdust bp meds (ophthalmologists) as I did in inpatient psychiatry. I once had an er doc find it funny i was ordering a lipid level...he said he never orders those. Even as a forensic psychiatric expert witness, i had to discuss LFTs and ammonia levels in my report to opine on adjudicative competency restorability (the defendant had delirium due to hepatic encephalopathy) as the attorney was not going to spring for a GI expert. The forensic psychology report on this defendant was not able to discuss restorability and misdiagnosed the defendant with neurocognitive disorder (fyi long standing hepatic encephalopathy can have long term neurocognitive effects but you wont know until the hepatic encephalopathy is resolved...unless i am mistaken).

 

[TexasPhysician]

Psychiatry is often associated with pseudoscience, and hence heals "mental" instead of "physical" ailments. There is no concern in these specialties because the lack of stethoscope use doesn't make their clinical practice any less stereotypically physical, unlike psychiatry which unfortunately is associated with therapist practice these days.

I don’t see any of this in the real world. Pseudoscience? I hear a lot more about antivax and how oncologists are hiding the cure for cancer than any stigma about psychiatry.
Radiologists do discuss a lot about not practicing medicine any longer. Derm makes too much $ to care, but they get teased a lot.

The end result is that you’ll miss out on something and be teased by colleagues regardless of specialty in good fun. We all respect each other.

 

[TexasPhysician]

That's because most people forget that psychiatry is even a part of medicine, in the general world. People may belittle oncologists especially because they're making bank while supposedly hiding a cure for cancer, they get the spotlight because cancer is a big thing with many people who suffer from it and isn't as discreet and stigmatized as psychiatric illnesses (in the sense that you would ashamed to admit you have it).

it may be a lack of experience on your part. It isn’t uncommon for the general public to be confused about many aspects of medicine. I just spoke to a seasoned attorney who thought radiologists had an associates degree. Oncologists actually do relatively poorly financially speaking compared to other IM sub-specialties.

 

[Merovinge]

I don’t see any of this in the real world. Pseudoscience? I hear a lot more about antivax and how oncologists are hiding the cure for cancer than any stigma about psychiatry.
Radiologists do discuss a lot about not practicing medicine any longer. Derm makes too much $ to care, but they get teased a lot.

The end result is that you’ll miss out on something and be teased by colleagues regardless of specialty in good fun. We all respect each other.

You have have missed the JAMA article about how cannabis cures all cancer and that oncologists are clearly to blame (actual patient experience only mildly altered for comedic effect).