Extra: Pitfalls of Modern Medical Training and the Dr/Primary Care Shortage

Renegade Psych

Join us for this episode outlining modern medical training and discussing some of the medicine cultural issues that contribute to a lack of critical thinking, and the primary care shortage, which is the worst in the world, by a landslide. Only 11.5% of U.S. Medical graduates go into primary care, which easily ranks as the lowest in the world (Germany is ~25%), and creates a system of specialists, typically without a capable general practitioner that is able to manage the entirety of your care. As David Healy told me, if you follow the guidelines for ADHD, and you follow the guidelines for bipolar, and you follow the guidelines for hypertension and headaches, you'll end up on a countless number of medicines, and we need intelligent and conscientous primary care providers to be able to provide good counsel to patients on the interactions of all these medications, and ultimately, reduce the polypharmacy epidemic we're seeing in our country and around the world today.

Joining me for the discussion today is Ariel Blythe-Reske, MD and psychiatrist working in NYC. I trained with Ariel and she is very intelligent, a good critical thinker, and high-energy and eccentric, with a lot of passion for her patients and providing good medical and psychiatric care. Our discussion is a little more informal, so beware if you don't like cursing or sarcasm... hope you enjoy.

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