Benji Waterhouse

I remember when I started at medical school, I was sitting in a great old lecture theater, wearing a stiff white coat, and our plummy dean was saying to us, your main job as future doctors is to keep your patients alive. Into my fresh notebook, I wrote, keep patients alive. And then I underlined it.

I remember when I started at medical school, I was sitting in a great old lecture theater, wearing a stiff white coat, and our plummy dean was saying to us, your main job as future doctors is to keep your patients alive. Into my fresh notebook, I wrote, keep patients alive. And then I underlined it.

I remember when I started at medical school, I was sitting in a great old lecture theater, wearing a stiff white coat, and our plummy dean was saying to us, your main job as future doctors is to keep your patients alive. Into my fresh notebook, I wrote, keep patients alive. And then I underlined it.

By the end of the six years, though, I realized that I was less interested in the body and more into the mind. And so I hung up my now stained lab coat and specialized in psychiatry. I now know that people are quite confused about the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and a psychic.

By the end of the six years, though, I realized that I was less interested in the body and more into the mind. And so I hung up my now stained lab coat and specialized in psychiatry. I now know that people are quite confused about the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and a psychic.

By the end of the six years, though, I realized that I was less interested in the body and more into the mind. And so I hung up my now stained lab coat and specialized in psychiatry. I now know that people are quite confused about the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and a psychic.

So just to quickly explain, psychiatrists are medical doctors who usually specialize in more serious mental illnesses, things like schizophrenia, and can prescribe medications. And boy, do we.

So just to quickly explain, psychiatrists are medical doctors who usually specialize in more serious mental illnesses, things like schizophrenia, and can prescribe medications. And boy, do we.

So just to quickly explain, psychiatrists are medical doctors who usually specialize in more serious mental illnesses, things like schizophrenia, and can prescribe medications. And boy, do we.

We also have the power to kind of detain or section people, which is like a strange superpower that allows us to lock a person up in a psychiatric hospital against their will and even force them to take medication without breaking the terms of the Geneva Convention. a kind of sad but what's considered necessary evil to keep patients and society safe.

We also have the power to kind of detain or section people, which is like a strange superpower that allows us to lock a person up in a psychiatric hospital against their will and even force them to take medication without breaking the terms of the Geneva Convention. a kind of sad but what's considered necessary evil to keep patients and society safe.

We also have the power to kind of detain or section people, which is like a strange superpower that allows us to lock a person up in a psychiatric hospital against their will and even force them to take medication without breaking the terms of the Geneva Convention. a kind of sad but what's considered necessary evil to keep patients and society safe.

There are a lot of unfair, I think, misconceptions about psychiatrists, that the male ones all have mad families themselves and wear cashmere jumpers and have beards. Which just isn't true. This is a machine-washable wool-polyester mix

There are a lot of unfair, I think, misconceptions about psychiatrists, that the male ones all have mad families themselves and wear cashmere jumpers and have beards. Which just isn't true. This is a machine-washable wool-polyester mix

There are a lot of unfair, I think, misconceptions about psychiatrists, that the male ones all have mad families themselves and wear cashmere jumpers and have beards. Which just isn't true. This is a machine-washable wool-polyester mix

It is true, though, that one of my motivations for becoming a psychiatrist was hoping to get my hands on the secret codes to fix my own slightly dysfunctional family. So I remember turning up optimistically on my first day as a psychiatrist, enthusiastic to get my hands on these secret codes. Instead, I was given a strangle-proof lanyard, a panic alarm, and self-defense training.

It is true, though, that one of my motivations for becoming a psychiatrist was hoping to get my hands on the secret codes to fix my own slightly dysfunctional family. So I remember turning up optimistically on my first day as a psychiatrist, enthusiastic to get my hands on these secret codes. Instead, I was given a strangle-proof lanyard, a panic alarm, and self-defense training.

It is true, though, that one of my motivations for becoming a psychiatrist was hoping to get my hands on the secret codes to fix my own slightly dysfunctional family. So I remember turning up optimistically on my first day as a psychiatrist, enthusiastic to get my hands on these secret codes. Instead, I was given a strangle-proof lanyard, a panic alarm, and self-defense training.

Our judo instructor was this, like, martial arts guy. And he told us, before he taught us the throws and the slams and stuff, he said, the biggest bit of advice he would tell us if we wanted to last long on the medical register was that we avoid any of our patients committing homicide. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Like, this was nothing like Frasier. Yeah.

Our judo instructor was this, like, martial arts guy. And he told us, before he taught us the throws and the slams and stuff, he said, the biggest bit of advice he would tell us if we wanted to last long on the medical register was that we avoid any of our patients committing homicide. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Like, this was nothing like Frasier. Yeah.