You are taught, when you train to be a psychiatrist, not to give advice. Instead, you must explore with patients their motives, needs and wishes and let them arrive at their own conclusions. Thus goes the professional credo. But one never really knows what goes on between any other psychiatrist and patient.
Psychiatric practice is more secreted from scrutiny than any other medical specialty.
Rarely are there the collegial interactions with regard to a patient that most doctors expect and enjoy. All rights reserved.