Do doctors seem very self-righteous`

Specifically Psychs. From my experience they seem to need a strong backbone to tell others they are crazy???

Yeah I agree. Out of all the psychiatrists iv seen, not one of them has ever admitted a personal fault or mistake to me, even when its painfully apparent.

EX: Doc gave me Seroquel thinking I was psychotic. It was hell taking that medication and I stopped after a week. Got a second opinion who said I wasn't psychotic and didnt need Seroquel. The first doctor agreed after a few more sessions, but not once did that arrogant bastard offer an apology.

Really, that sucks.

I've only had 2 pdocs, and they have been pretty good.
I've no complaints so far with the current one, my first one I had for 12 yrs.

I've not had any negative experiences yet, I hope I never do.

whero wrote:Specifically Psychs. From my experience they seem to need a strong backbone to tell others they are crazy???

Whero hi,

I think it depends on their nature and also on how they try to help others. Not necessary every psychs are crazy.

Ravine wrote:

whero wrote:Specifically Psychs. From my experience they seem to need a strong backbone to tell others they are crazy???

Whero hi,

I think it depends on their nature and also on how they try to help others. Not necessary every psychs are crazy.

I don't think you understood my statement/question.

whero wrote:I don't think you understood my statement/question.

May be, Sorry

doctors are very self righteous and have enormous egos, especially male doctors, I dont trust any of them, where as I used to think they were one of the few honorable professions

and yea most or all psychiatric doctors are quacks by nature, they dont like being told all mental illnesses and all these drugs are a bunch of crap, it kind of puts their 10 years of schooling and their $500,000 salarys in perspective, they would like to stay in the ultimate denial, they are worse then priests

pdocs don't have any special talents nor are they better than someone who has done his reading/study on mental issues. They have this delusion that they know better, but if you put a pdoc next to someone who's been interested in mental issues and has out of personal interest read/studied a lot about it, you won't be able to tell the difference between the two. Being a pdoc is great I guess. You have power over the mind of the patient and you decide if the patient has some mental issues or is out right crazy, it's not the patient who decides this. Crazy people can't tell they're crazy, right? If the patient resists, in extreme cases you again have the power over him/her to control him and decide what's "good" for the patient, even though you can't really look inside his mind to see/tell what's really going on. pdocs have gained so much power through out the history of psychiatry, that they are present in every corner of society, from politics and law down to everyday things. A judge will very often listen to a pdoc, even if the pdoc may have no clue what's going on with the person and only THINKS what may be wrong, but is absolutely unsure.

Being a pdoc is great. Not only you get a fat salary, but you also have close ties to the pharma industry and lobbying pharma salesmen

dbx wrote: A judge will very often listen to a pdoc, even if the pdoc may have no clue what's going on with the person and only THINKS what may be wrong, but is absolutely unsure.

I saw this first hand in my review panel. The one guy was a judge and listened to him say something about me missing a app. and that supposedely my mom claimed I "did not want to take the injection anymroe" which I recall nothing of and ironic enough I showed up the next day after phoning in apologizing and telling them when I would be there. They were going to lock me away again which is bull. I had a job and was doing my very best.

The judge made it clear he did not want to hear what my mom said but what was written down.

In the end he agreed with the doctor but said it was hard decision.

As patients, we tend to forget that doctors are human beings and are subject to the same range of emotions as everyone else. Having had contact with psychiatrists since a young age, I have seen the whole gamut of personalities. Like Uberfrau said, there are some good ones and some bad ones.

The question that always has been on my mind about Psychiatrists is what motivates them to chose psychiatry as their specialty within the medical profession. I would think someone who wants to be an MD would be interested in being a general practicioner, neurosurgeon, or what have you.

As very few psychiatrists actually engage in psychotherapy these days, you would think if they were intersted in this profession from the start, they would have worked on a PhD in Psychology.

Anyways, when doctors finish medical school and pass their board ,they must choose a residency program which determines what they will specialize in. Acceptance into certain programs are very competitive(neurology, etc). Others are not competitive and are kind of the 'last resort' when everything else is taken and no offers have been made. Psychiatry(looking inside people's minds), Proctology(looking inside people's butts), etc seem to be those 'last resort' options for medical students when nothing else works, at least according to information available online.

I know that's a generalization and some probably do go into psychiatry out of interest in that field ; however, I would suspect most choose psychiatry because that's all that's available and they didnt get their first or second choice of a speciality.

Some doctors I have seen I believe would rather be doing anything else, and it shows. The bad ones wanted to be a neurosurgery resident at the Mayo Clinic but didn't make the cut. Instead, they got offerred a residency program in the psyche ward at some run-down VA hospital, handing out pills all day and listening to people go off.

Personally, I think the job would suck and don't understand why any sane individual would take it unless they had to. So, that may be part of the answer as to why some of them act like they do--perhaps they are either pissed, bored, or wished they had studied to become a pastry chef.