“When will it get better, Doctor?” your patient asks. And somewhere inside you, a quieter voice asks the very same thing. Before we reach for the textbook, sit with that for a moment. Because stress is not something we will only encounter in our patients, many of us are already living it. Hans Selye defined […]
After completing my postgraduate training in 2007, I started my career as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Kurnool Medical College. Initially, my mind was filled with evidence-based treatment guidelines from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). I often expressed my arrogance and made funny remarks about the treatments prescribed by my seniors. […]
More than fifteen years ago when I joined a medical college as young staff, there was hardly any undergraduate psychiatry class!! First, there were nothing called regular staff and secondly, undergraduate students would not attend the session as psychiatry was not mandatory!! Attendance in psychiatry was never counted, all the more reason for students to […]
