Yousuf Raza – Why is there a growing distrust towards doctors

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.