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Originally Posted by docicu3
Not all of them Scuds....
I would have agreed with you until the specialty of psychiatry about 10 years ago split off a fraction of it's specialty as a subset which is referred to as "addictionologist's". These health care workers specialize in and only treat substance issues with far more accountability and insight than traditional psychiatry.
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I'm not saying they can't help with the substance issue,but the mental problems are not at all easy to treat.It depends on what Chuck is referring to,though.ANXIETY,PANIC ATTACKS etc. are a lot more treatable than depression,for instance.A lot of people have both,but only get real results treating the former.Maybe he is manic depressive.Like I said,it's more a case of them getting the disease less acute(more chronic.)I guess if I was selling pills for it,then I would want people to think it's real treatable stuff,too.
Any decent nurse could probably do a better job than Psychiatrists do.It's not like these people are rewarded for getting people better(like other doctors.)They're getting checks regardless of whether patients get better.I guess they're measured on something,but not on performance.Maybe they get measured on whether or not patients get worse.In other words,are they able to keep people chronic (versus acute.)