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Hi follow psychiatrists,
I am a neurologist but I was wondering if one of you, deep thinkers, can explain to me why we, as a medical community, alway negative.
Personally, I am a glass-half-full-type of a person. However, everyone around me is pessimistic about the future of this career. Quite frankly, it started to rub off on me.
Whether it is among my small circle of physician friends or on the internet (SDN and a large physician FB group), everyone is expecting the worst in the future. Salary cuts, midlevel encroachment, outsourcing to overseas, oversaturation, and now AI taking over.
In fact, I came to this subforum to seek some positivity and was surprised to see these negative thoughts being discussed. It is ridiculous. Oversaturation in psychiatry? You kidding me!!!
Fear of AI in psychiatry? Even more bizarre.
I don’t observe similar behavior from other professions despite them being much, much more replaceable.
Please help me understand what prompts this gloomy outlook among us.
I am a neurologist but I was wondering if one of you, deep thinkers, can explain to me why we, as a medical community, alway negative.
Personally, I am a glass-half-full-type of a person. However, everyone around me is pessimistic about the future of this career. Quite frankly, it started to rub off on me.
Whether it is among my small circle of physician friends or on the internet (SDN and a large physician FB group), everyone is expecting the worst in the future. Salary cuts, midlevel encroachment, outsourcing to overseas, oversaturation, and now AI taking over.
In fact, I came to this subforum to seek some positivity and was surprised to see these negative thoughts being discussed. It is ridiculous. Oversaturation in psychiatry? You kidding me!!!
Fear of AI in psychiatry? Even more bizarre.
I don’t observe similar behavior from other professions despite them being much, much more replaceable.
Please help me understand what prompts this gloomy outlook among us.