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higmy6 t1_j6d5spp wrote

Reply to comment by ripstep1 in NYC promises telehealth for all high school students struggling with mental health by greenhousecrtv

Yk, maybe the better way to attack this would be trying to get more psychiatrists, not prevent more people from getting care

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ripstep1 t1_j6daa9s wrote

Generating a new psychiatrist takes about 9 years. Not to mention you cannot just snap your fingers and get a new psychiatrist. Only so many quality training positions available.

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higmy6 t1_j6dfs1v wrote

Yeah I know… so let’s start incentivizing a lot more it now so that we have an influx of them in 8-9 years.

We can also do things like promoting psychologists to receive extra training and even to encourage some to go all the way so we can bring some more in 4 years.

Then how about encouraging psychiatrists to come from other cities to bring some in immediately?

Of course these solutions have issues but we need to be doing something and simply neglecting to address the issue and pretend it’s solved by not allowing people to receive the care they need is only gonna make more problems for us, like it already is

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ripstep1 t1_j6dss0p wrote

Encouraging psychiatrists to go to nyc is simply engaging in brain drain. You help your problem, and you fuck over Philadelphia.

Incentives won’t help the pipeline. Psychiatrists are already being generated at the max number of available residency slots.

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