Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse (Ldr 03) provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?
This lecture explores these complicated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk.
