Posted by Bob on August 13, 2002, at 1:10:16
In reply to Re: Strange thing about mental illness » Squiggles, posted by Mr. Scott on August 13, 2002, at 0:34:32
> Actually, of all physicians psychiatrists are always the most screwed up (my words). They have the highest suicide rate of any physician (far higher than oncologists who deal with people constantly dead) they also have the lowest job satisfaction. They also don't make that much $$ either. It's my job to know these kinds of things, or at least it was...
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> ScottIt's not hard for me to see why this might be. It has to be extremely frustrating to treat people when nobody understands anything about these conditions. Working with seriously mentally ill people would definitely start to wear on me.
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