Nitin Gogtay, MD
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Medical education
"Why would you waste your medical training to go into psychiatry? Do you not want to be a real doctor?" I have heard about a hundred variations of this in my career. If you decide to become a psychiatrist, people…
“Why would you waste your medical training to go into psychiatry? Do you not want to be a real doctor?” I have heard about a hundred variations of this in my career. If you decide to become a psychiatrist, people will question your wisdom, and then if you decide to become a child psychiatrist, they will almost want to stage an intervention.
I want to be upfront here. I never did …
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The child psychiatrist shortage starts with what we say
Conditions and diseases
Tommy, a seven-year-old boy, had started telling his mother that he was hearing voices. I think about Tommy often now, because the families who come to me are more frightened than ever, and they often arrive already certain. By the…
Tommy, a seven-year-old boy, had started telling his mother that he was hearing voices.
I think about Tommy often now, because the families who come to me are more frightened than ever, and they often arrive already certain. By the time parents reach my office to tell me their child has begun hearing voices, or seeing things, they have usually asked the internet what it means. More recently, and increasingly, they …
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Hearing voices in children rarely means schizophrenia
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