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"Psych is an art in my honest opinion and is probably the least "sciencey" of all of the blocks... despite it's tie-ins into neurology here and there.... hence why it is left to the END of our curriculum."
I agree and disagree with this statement. You are right, psych is an art. But you can say that about any specialty. Surgeons talk about surgery as an "art". I had an orthopod tell me he has done over 1 million knee replacements, but he doesn't get bored because he views it as an art that he is still perfecting, and he has his own individual approach.
Least sciency? Not sure about that either. You are correct, you can take a less science approach in psychiatry. But there is also a very hardcore, concrete area of psychiatry that involves psychopharm/neuroimaging/neuroscience, etc.
A general reply to the naysayers...
In the hospital, do you know who the surgeon consults when a patient coming out of post op becomes psychotic? How about the patient who is delirious on the med floor and didn’t respond to 2mg of haldol? Or a patient who has questionable capacity?? They are hitting the consult button so often it is nauseating. I’m beginning to wonder if internists can treat delirium anymore.
Psychiatrists may be artists, but we are not starving. We are masters in psychopharmacology. We know “those meds” and treat “those patients” all while giving a middle finger to stigma and living a very decent life/respectable income. The fact that some here need to validate themselves by becoming defensive by naysayers just feeds the troll. Please keep it up, I like being in demand.