Hello Soozan. Sorry you are having trouble getting a psychiatrist. I know how frustrating that can be. I've ranted about the same thing a few times myself, well perhaps more than a few times LOL. Take Care. Paul M
Hello everyone. What follows won't help Soozan's frustration and believe me her frustration is justified. I've been dumped by shrinks because I was too well. Still ill enough to be on disability , but too well to need a shrink. It would seem to be a conflict of terms. Trying to be get a new shrink is really tough too.
However in case anyone reading this doesn't know the following, CAMH does have a lot of trainee psychiatrist because that is one of it's primary duties. Hopefully that will be a good thing as it should mean in the future, we will have a few more shrinks around and possibly even a few that know why we do the things we do. You will notice I said hopefully, because the reason why there is a shortage of doctors in general and specialists in specific, is because many yrs ago the Province managed to screw up the system and cut the numbers of people allowed into Medical school and also the number of internships etc available at the same time that the population of Ontario was increasing, a totally dumb thing to do. We know have something like 20% fewer doctors and 20% more population than when that decision was made.
The number of entrants allowed into medical school is still severely restricted and it has nothing to do with getting only the best and smartest as a 95% average still may not get you in. The province has opened up a few more spots in recent yrs, but still not nearly enough. If you are every talking to your local MPP, ask them why the province still restricts entry when most medical schools would gladly take more students. And that's my rant. Take Care. paul m