GK
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Dr Shock MD PhD
- Neuroethics & Law Blog
- Shrink Rap
- The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
- The Procrastination Equation | Learn how to stop putting things off and start getting stuff done
- Three Beautiful Things
Gender | Male |
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Occupation | Psychiatrist |
Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Introduction | I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about. |