positives of psych

[fj25]

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To me pysch has alot of postives but i wonder if it is hard to not take stuff home. Also, I wonder what it will be like spending the rest of my life analyzing, if it willbe annoying becausee I feel like I already analyze too much in my own life.

 

[Anasazi23]

I think you take any part of a medicine job home with you at some points. Psychiatry is no exception. However, as ha often been stated on this board, it's important to have hobbies outside of medicine in general and psychiatry in particular.

After psych residency, after seeing a couple thousand patients, it becomes sort of rote, I would think, leaving you to do what many psychiatrists do - treat the easy stuff easily, and reflect or "analyze" the more complex cases as you need to and see fit. I see many practicing psychiatrists do this.

We have one attending who runs a successful private practice. She takes only patients who pay out of pocket and are "interesting and thought provoking." She does both psychodynamic psychotherapy and medication management.

That is, after all, at least part of the reason we went into the profession.

 

[fj25]

I have been feeling kind of nervous making the choice expecially since we start putting in our choices tomorrow. I think Psych fits me but I also think I can do other fields just as well. I feel like its all a gamble no matter what you do. So I guess we'll see.

I think you take any part of a medicine job home with you at some points. Psychiatry is no exception. However, as ha often been stated on this board, it's important to have hobbies outside of medicine in general and psychiatry in particular.

After psych residency, after seeing a couple thousand patients, it becomes sort of rote, I would think, leaving you to do what many psychiatrists do - treat the easy stuff easily, and reflect or "analyze" the more complex cases as you need to and see fit. I see many practicing psychiatrists do this.

We have one attending who runs a successful private practice. She takes only patients who pay out of pocket and are "interesting and thought provoking." She does both psychodynamic psychotherapy and medication management.

That is, after all, at least part of the reason we went into the profession.