> Medical professionals are working tirelessly to find cures for conditions like cancer. Researchers are, the doctors at your local hospital are very unlikely

> Medical professionals are working tirelessly to find cures for conditions like cancer. Researchers are, the doctors at your local hospital are very unlikely to be participating in the research of new cures for anything. > psychiatrists seem to be almost completely uninterested in finding or promoting permanent cures Psychiatric research has developed hundreds of new, more advanced medicines in the last 10 years alone. More effective anti-depressants, with different interactions so different populations can take them with less risk of drug interaction. More effective anti-anxiety medications that have lower risk factors. Then there's the research of lifestyle changes - I've never met a psychiatrist who didn't believe that exercise was one of the most effective means of getting through depression! I believe you're against bad psychiatrists, which I understand and agree with. I'm also against bad medical doctors! Bad surgeons, too - though I believe there's a lot of complexity with measuring the performance of that field in particular. A good doctor recommends lifestyle changes to patients with say diabetes or heart disease - of course they do. But bad ones just give you the prescriptions for drugs that alleviate the worst symptoms without telling you that there's anything you can do to fix it. I just don't see why we'd attack all doctors for the actions of the worst ones.