http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/43/21/2?etoc
Despite all the warnings and all the publicity about the medical dangers of second generation anti-psychotics, the majority of psychiatrists are not monitoring their patients cholesterol and diabetes. If psychiatrists want as they say they do to be as respected as other medical doctors in the United States, which they currently are not by far, they need to step up their practice of medicine and stop just handing out pills in the quickest appointments they can manage and or earn the biggest bucks in psychiatry by doing ECT because it pays so well compared to medication monitoring and psychotherapy. First do no harm applies to every medical doctor, including psychiatrists. Instead of blaming the lower respect and trust in psychiatrists compared to other medical specialities on stigma associated with their patient population, psychiatrists need to look in the mirror at their own behavior.
