Hurt a lot there. La County is broke. Calif. state is flat broke.
School Districts are stiil well off due to the clause that they get first money in the State General Fund.
Iwould never work for anyone. I had a sole practice for 30 years. Those that can do, those who can't work for the county.My speciality was Neuropsychological Assessment and workers comp when wthat was alive.
When I began a company like Disney had 1/3 million insurance on their workers. Many were tapped out by physicians. One pt who had this type of policy, I was asked to assess and had an IQ of 78. Her MD DX was Psychoysis NOS. Hah hah
To your other question. Yes I know how to dx Anxiety but could you comment on my last post. It presents several problems.
a bit confusing , both psychologists and psychiatrist go to court. MD's made more money Most don't like this kind of work. You must have a strong ego.
No I do not feel a psychologist has superior talent in court, but they bring surplus value information if they bring in testing. The juries like to see stuff, they are tired of all the talking. I would never gone against Jolly West went was alive nor Parke Dietz. I can hold my own against the average psychiatrist. Some are good some stink--same as my profession.
You have not read my post, It is limited to UCLA and USC only.Which supplies the majority of psychiatrists in LA, with the foreign MD's
As I noted, training in psychotherapy takes many years ,6 on the
average. I have always been solo but invited to offices with psychiatrists. I work closely with other mD's.
I tested more than 20,000 clients. And can remember a few. I got a referral from a neurologist, the pt had many diffuse psych complaints. His MMPI was normal. I talked to the neurologist and his dx then became Huntingtons--sad but true. The man produced a clean MMPI, rarely seen. Oh I used to test police candidates and also take referrals from those who failed the examination.
1st generstions beside freud, Jung Adler Fromm Druckers.
2nd generation added much to the study of Borderline pd.
Ifyou become a psychiartist, are going to do you own H &P's? Psychiatrists don't. They call in a collague to do that--just like the psychologist would
Hurt Please comment on my post above on SSRI and GP's TNX
I agree with your last statment. If I wanted to be a MD, I would have gone to Mexico.
The young psychologists scare me a bit. They have no training in psych testing. Here another problem. Testing is taught in the Mid West but for some rerason, UCLA and USC are "Biological psychology" UCLA kicked out all clinical students years ago. Some small schools like CSPP have taken over. The whole thing is a mess. No school in LA teaches the MMPI. etc.