tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748227.post132182998645005301..comments2023-10-29T07:59:02.311+00:00Comments on The difference is the difference you make!: Psychiatrist's wagesKirkby Lonsdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558312766052107232noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748227.post-68797836578390729472010-01-08T23:21:57.150+00:002010-01-08T23:21:57.150+00:00Hi there,
Interesting to know all this.
I think...Hi there,<br /><br />Interesting to know all this. <br /><br />I think GPs should be paid much less. I think that Clinical Psychologists should be paid the same salary as Psychiatrists. I think that psychiatrist should be paid slightly less than they get now. <br /><br />I don't understand why Clinical Psychologists get paid half the salary of a Psychiatrist. They have PhDs as well. They work the same hours. They seem to be just as sophisticated and experienced. They might be better at assessing most people (most people not having severe medical mental insanity). They seem to work harder; it's easier and quicker to give pills than to find and use the right words, right body language and give enough time to help a person. There are more different ways of talking to a person than the number of different pills to prescribe for mental health and many more variables to consider than the side effects of pills. <br /><br />On top of all this, Clinical Psychologists seem to make a bigger, more positive, long lasting and better quality differences to people's lives with their non-biological therapy. Pills don't help most people, they're really only for the severely medically mentally unwell who don't have particular psychosocial stressors. <br /><br />Psychiatrists are more like administrators. The greet people, take notes and refer most people to other health professionals to diagnose and treat because they're not qualified to. <br /><br />So I understand why you're questioning psychiatrists' salaries. On the other hand the psychiatrists I have met have impressed me and they have valuable knowledge about people which I think other doctors lack. The ones I have met do take into account socioeconomic and psychosocial problems. <br /><br />I think psychiatrists realise that psychiatry is for the socially abused (often with the perpetrators at large who are considered by society to be the mentally well). And I think that psychiatrists are genuinely concerned about preventing people going on a downward spiral due to psychosocial stressors. I hope that modern psychiatry develops this attitude further so as to become more effective in preventing mental illness. <br /><br />I think it is the GPs who should be earning much less. Many earn over 100k. To me they are more like basic receptionists and, to be honest, much of their work is dealing with minor illnesses. Many GPs are less sophisticated in their dealings with people than psychiatrists. But I suppose it depends on the person and I suppose there are good and bad psychiatrists just as there are good and bad GPs. I haven't come across a bad psychiatrist though. They seem to have had better training in people skills than GPs do and perhaps should have a greater role in training other doctors how to understand, sympathise with and treat people. <br /><br />So, I think GPs should earn much less and Clinical Psychologists should earn the same salary as psychiatrists, who should earn less.<br /><br />Summary:<br />- GPs should be considered as more like receptionists and earn much less. <br />- Psychiatrists should be considered more as administrators and earn less. <br />- Clinical Psychologists should be recognised as doctors and called doctors who do valuable and life changing work which is just as sophisticated as psychiatry work and they should have the same length of training as psychiatrists and be paid the same as psychiatrists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com