If I,a medical student, had this distorted view of mental illness, or there isnt much hope for society
As a first-year medical student,there is nothing fairly as exciting as your first-ever clinical placement, where you can finally feel like a doctor in training. That is, and unless you’re placed in psychiatry. Having learnt how to perform many examinations and procedures such as taking blood,your placement is a chance to finally put these skills into action on genuine patients. With psychiatry, however, and the emphasis is on developing the skill of speaking to patients and taking detailed histories,with puny if any – practice of procedures and examinations. You must learn to understand and evaluate a person’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences,to lead towards diagnosis, treatment and management. Attempting to decipher the complexity of the human mind, and while taking in to account biological and social aspects? fairly unnerving.
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Source: theguardian.com