Pushing 70 and Sharing the Wisdom: Guest Blogger Dr. Bruce Hershfield Shares His Experience with Younger Psychiatrists

The article below is being reprinted from this month's edition of The Maryland Psychiatrist.  Dr. Hershfield shares his wisdom on outpatient treatment of patients, and of running a private practice.  Please note the intended audience for this wisdom is younger psychiatrists, in particular, those just starting out.  I'm not a younger psychiatrist just starting out, and in fact, I'd fail on a couple of these measure -- we all have to figure out for ourselves how best to practice in the context of our personality's and in the context of who are patients are and what they need.  Overall, however, I thought Dr. Hershfield makes some excellent points and I wanted to share his wisdom.  With thanks to Bruce Hershfield and to Dr. Nancy Wahls, editor of The Maryland Psychiatrist, for allowing this to be reprinted. The Shaw quote is for Jesse.WHAT I’VE LEARNED By Bruce Hershfield, MD Now that I’m getting ready to turn 70, I thought I’d summarize what I’ve learned since I finished my residency at the University North Carolina, when I was 28.  Of course, , I didn’t learn all this only by being a psychiatrist, since I would hope that most folks have also learned lots in the last 41 years., But our field  has really changed, and so have I. This is what I tell the Residents, when I get a chance to meet them in a  group: 1      Psychotherapy is important, particularly if the patient is on the right medication. I wonâ...
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