Psychiatry: awaken and return to the path

Instead of focusing on the more astonishing inaccuracies, such as there not being much to "master" in psychopharmacology, I should like to address a few subjects that may have the potential to create a more insidious and enduring form of misrepresentation- namely, the implications that psychiatrists must now "play the game" and resign themselves to a bleak future of harried pill dispensing. In the recent past, psychiatric research has suffered humiliating dishonor in terms of allegations of fraud and selective publication of clinical trials.4 And now, some psychiatrists may find themselves terribly discouraged by the current state of the psychiatric union. There is much truth to the statement that medicine is rapidly changing in the United States, and that these changes have been associated with a loss of intimacy between doctors and patients.\n * Thus, the business of health care becomes progressively segmented and compartmentalized * No area of health care is immune to the above process.