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Controversy in medicine and psychiatry

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.10.1064

Factual and ethical controversies confront physicians in medicine as well as in psychiatry. If psychiatrists can impart a perspective on these controversies and their growth-stimulating quality to medical students and thereby increase their tolerance for uncertainty, they will aid them in becoming better physicians and will perhaps also remove one reason for their disinterest in psychiatry.

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