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Beginning Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Geoff Adams  and
Marilyn A. Cook
Geoff Adams
Affiliation:
The Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals
Marilyn A. Cook
Affiliation:
Kings College Hospital, London SE5
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Most people come into psychiatry from behind the white coat of more technologically orientated medicine. In psychiatry, with its slower pace and greater intimacy, it is seen as more important to consider the patients' feelings and there is time to do so. But here one's role is less clearly defined and assumptions carried over about the relation of the junior doctor to other staff may be inappropriate.

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Trainees' Forum
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , March 1984 , pp. 53 - 54
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