Primary care doctors as well as psychiatrists give out antidepressants more than other kinds of medicine.
At the time I started training in psychiatry, we memorized the antidepressant side effects for early chemical classes derived from antituberculosis drugs and became overjoyed when the SSRIs came out. Actually something safe and effective and pretty “clean” of risks and side effects and interactions! First Prozac, which was FDA approved a day I was getting off call and grabbing a few hours of shuteye to be awakened by the morning news proclaiming that the new “safe” antidepressant would be a “wonderful advancement for psychiatry.” Read more on …
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