All I can say about these folks is that it sure must be nice to have a job where you have ZERO accountability for your work.
zero accountability?
Let’s see.
Constant threat of lawsuits.
If a psychiatrist discharges a patient from a facility and the patient commits suicide within 3 - 5 days the psychiatrist, the staff, and the facility undergo a virtual colonoscopy by quasi governmental powers and licenses and livelihoods hang in balance.
Every word written in a chart and or dictated needs to be written with the understanding it is a legal document and can be used in court, against the writer.
Treating people with thought disorders of one kind or another leave these people open to the legal craziness that only the mentally ill can provide.
Spend much time with the paranoid?
How about people who are so psychotic that they cannot even see or hear through their hallucinations?
How about people who are dangerous, verbally abusive, violent, and cunning?
How about people who are willing to kill themselves and sometimes they will take others too, because they are not thinking very clearly?
These are some of the people that the professions of psychiatry psychology, counseling, and nursing deal with on a daily basis in out patient and inpatient settings.
Easy to judge when you dont know much.