I don't typically say "I told you so" for two reasons: a) one day somebody who "told me so" will end up being right and I'll be made to look foolish; b) it just isn't a very nice thing to say.
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When I meet someone new I am almost invariably asked, “So what do you do for a living?” Technically I am a psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist as well as a forensic psychiatrist. However, this is a really long answer to a short question so I usually just say “I’m a psychiatrist”. If a person wants to know more specifics about my career then I elaborate from there. Either way, almost every single person responds with some variation of, “Oh – you’re a psychologist. Interesting.”
Expanded editorial originally distributed by PRWeb, May 29, 2014
Lexington, Kentucky
Timothy M. Houchin | Testing for ADHD
Timothy M. Houchin, Special to The Courier-Journal;3:05 a.m. EDT May 9, 2014
It is the first day of 2014 and I have been seeing patients in my office for most of it.
I had never heard of the term "affluenza" before I read about it in this morning's news headlines. I thought to myself "well they've found a new variant of the flu" (oh wait - that's influenza
I'll keep this brief because I recently released a blog on ADHD with up-to-date stats, links, etc.
Ask anyone about what they think about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, and you are likely to elicit a variety of opinions. In my office, I have heard everything from “ADHD is a scam” to “but doctor, my son MUST have ADHD – the saliva test I sent to Dr so-and-so in Arizona proves it!”
A “kook” is my term for someone who seeks to advance a treatment that has either been disproved or is on the fringe of mainstream medicine. The kook’s primary motive is to help people, not to scam them. Remember the story of Chicken Little?