Given that I had already released some identifying information(year of training, what my fiance does, amg, etc) I wanted to preserve some degree of anonymity. Partly for myself(I dont really feel comfortable with full disclosure in a non anon setting) and partly because I've spoken about my fiance as well and I don't think it's fair to her. One way to do this is to pick a different type of program in a different region of the country that lacks specificity(ie there are 5-6 'top' programs in the ne and most have > 10 residents per year...which would have made it difficult to identify a resident in question had one suspected a particular program)....
One could argue I should have changed the region and left out the 'top' disclaimer(which would be more accurate as I am not in a particularly competitive program), but this generally decreased the # of residents per class. And honestly, if one is trying to decieve/mislead for that purpose they wouldn't come at things as a psychiatry resident anyways. I'd be someone who did a residency in psychiatry and medicine for example
But back to the anon side of things- a lot of the advice and commentary from various posters on this forum(both residents and attendings) is without substance, bland, boring, and reads like a pr statement or a political campaign ad. I wonder how much of this is secondary to the nature of the forum and the different levels of disclosure of posters. Because of this one would hope the people here who do track locations of posts would allow me to preserve some degree of anonymity for those that don't. I think that leads to people feeling more comfortable speaking what's on their mind in forums like these.
but on this particular topic you guys are missing the point- it doesn't matter that psychiatrists do marginally better than lawyers in terms of public perception. It does matter than lawyers and psychiatrists are both pretty near the bottom of the list.