Why is your psychiatrist prescribing a particular drug for you or someone in your family? Is it because it’s the most effective? Or could it be because he or she just attended a conference at which a leading psychiatrist touted the benefits of the drug? Is is possible that your psychiatrist should be sending you to a psychologist for talk therapy instead? What influences his or her thinking when it comes to treatment?
Your psychiatrist stays on top of the current medical research in a couple of ways. He or she reads medical journals and attends medical conferences. Let’s say that at a conference, your doctor attends a talk by a leader in the field of child psychiatry, Dr. Joseph Biederman. Your doctor is confident that he or she can trust Dr. Biderman when he talks about treating children with psychiatric disorders using medication. Or your doctor might read an article that Dr. Biderman wrote for a medical journal about the benefit of psychiatric medication for children, even though that particular medication hasn’t been approved for use in children.
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