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Medical school “banter” denigrating GPs and psychiatrists must stop, say college heads
http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i5316
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Found the full length article here:
Not such friendly banter? GPs and psychiatrists against the systematic denigration of their specialties
http://bjgp.org/content/66/651/508
British Journal of General Practice
This is rich:
http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i5316
Two of the UK’s most senior doctors have called for an end to the damaging “banter” in medical schools, which they claim is dissuading students from applying to general practice and psychiatry.
Good news for psychiatry.Maureen Baker, chair of the Royal College of general practitioners, and Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said that “the systematic denigration” of their specialties was putting patient safety at risk by contributing to a shortfall of GPs across the country and was stifling efforts to achieve parity of esteem between physical and mental health.
In a joint editorial in the British Journal of General Practice
ETA:
Found the full length article here:
Not such friendly banter? GPs and psychiatrists against the systematic denigration of their specialties
http://bjgp.org/content/66/651/508
British Journal of General Practice
This is rich:
Deriding psychiatrists — and our patients — in such a way stimulates stigma in society and in doing so risks discouraging patients with mental health conditions from seeking help, for mental and physical health issues.
This is entirely incongruous with the current drive for parity of esteem between physical and mental health, a governmental priority.
Such besmirching and stigmatising banter ultimately disrespects and threatens the health of our patients. A learning environment that allows this to exist does not foster any such parity and if we don’t have parity of esteem between physical and mental health within medicine, then how can we expect it to exist outside?
It is about insisting that all of our patients, with physical health problems, mental health problems, or both, are treated with respect and dignity. Currently, medicine is lagging behind wider society in achieving parity of esteem between physical and mental health.
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