Yousuf Raza – Why is there a growing distrust towards doctors
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The speaker discusses the distrust towards doctors and psychiatrists, stating that people will not have issues with medical practitioners and that mental illness is a common factor. They also mention that people in their family will experience mental health issues and that it's sad and unfortunate.
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Why do you think there's this distrust towards
doctors, that patients have to search what they
have before coming to the doctor?
Um, good question.
First up, I don't think it's just distrust.
I think it's the stigma as well.
Okay, especially psychiatry.
Medical practitioners, people will not have a problem
going to.
People will not have an issue going to,
if you have a, you know, if you're
a diabetic, you will not have a problem
going to a medical practitioner to get your
blood sugar checked, take medicine for it, no
issues.
Psychiatrists, yes, we will have issues going to
them.
Getting a label, being judged, becoming quote unquote
unmarriable.
If there is a label put on us
that she or he has mental illness, right,
so that that difficulty is there.
The other reason for the distrust, you will
have heard stories as to how people in
your family who did go to psychiatrists, how
they were treated.
Right?
And like I said, as practitioners, we haven't
really done our profession a whole lot of
good by the way we've advocated, held ourselves
up, the ethics with which we have practiced
our profession.
It's really, it's pretty saddening, really.
It's pretty saddening.
It's unfortunate.