Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy
Medicine is rapidly changing in the United States from a cottage industry to one dominated by large hospital groups and corporations, but the new efficiencies can be accompanied by a telling loss of intimacy between doctors and patients. And no specialty has suffered this loss more profoundly than psychiatry. New York Times 3/5/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=health
When All Else Fails, Blaming the Patient Often Comes Next
Doctors and psychotherapists generally don’t like it when their patients don’t get better. But the fact is that lots of patients elude our clinical skill and therapeutic cleverness. That’s often when the trouble starts.
