SPOTLIGHT -
Unique Challenges and Joys of Rural Small-Town Outpatient Psychiatry
When you have a strong team, you can provide quality mental health care and have an immensely satisfying career-even in the middle of a cornfield.
Bottle of Pink Lemonade
Like every new resident just starting to work in an outpatient clinic, I was nervous about the patients I would inherit from the graduating resident. It did not help when the graduating resident warned me that one particular patient “could be difficult.” I comforted myself with the thought that every psychiatric patient has a “difficult life” and that is why they need our help.