At which stage did you feel like you could practice independently without supervision?
And at which stage did you start practicing privately?
Personally I feel like I’d only feel comfortable in the last year of training but I know people who started in their first year
Coolest was an original jacket of a rlly good brand, haggled it to 700
Weirdest would be between sock warmers and egg holders(I use them to store lipbalm)
Hope to find: YARN! WOOL YARN! WOOL SWEATERS JISKI YARN MEIN NIKALON! GIVE ME HOPE PLEASE
A little out of place but I’m a psychiatry resident and since we lose a lot of patients to follow up and our medication is so slow to take effect any discrepancies between brands are even more risky
So I’d like to know which brand name medications are actually effective vs ones that are shady esp by price
If you’ve found your way here, you’re likely part of the small, stretched, and quietly resilient mental health community in Pakistan.
This space exists for you.
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