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While reading the “Opportunities to partner with clinical pharmacists in ambulatory care” (Current Psychiatry, Evidence-Based Reviews, July 2014, p. 23-29 [http://bit.ly/1s3yqmh], I became puzzled. Several times, I asked myself, “As a psychiatrist reasonably well-trained in psychopharmacology, why would I need or want to partner with a clinical pharmacist in this fashion?” Indeed, I was under the impression that this is what I trained to do. It called to mind a bumper sticker from the feminist movement of the 1960s that read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” It then occurred to me that a psychiatrist without a clinical pharmacist would find himself or herself in that same lamentable position.
Scott D. Mendelson, MD, PhD
Roseburg, Oregon
While reading the “Opportunities to partner with clinical pharmacists in ambulatory care” (Current Psychiatry, Evidence-Based Reviews, July 2014, p. 23-29 [http://bit.ly/1s3yqmh], I became puzzled. Several times, I asked myself, “As a psychiatrist reasonably well-trained in psychopharmacology, why would I need or want to partner with a clinical pharmacist in this fashion?” Indeed, I was under the impression that this is what I trained to do. It called to mind a bumper sticker from the feminist movement of the 1960s that read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” It then occurred to me that a psychiatrist without a clinical pharmacist would find himself or herself in that same lamentable position.
Scott D. Mendelson, MD, PhD
Roseburg, Oregon
While reading the “Opportunities to partner with clinical pharmacists in ambulatory care” (Current Psychiatry, Evidence-Based Reviews, July 2014, p. 23-29 [http://bit.ly/1s3yqmh], I became puzzled. Several times, I asked myself, “As a psychiatrist reasonably well-trained in psychopharmacology, why would I need or want to partner with a clinical pharmacist in this fashion?” Indeed, I was under the impression that this is what I trained to do. It called to mind a bumper sticker from the feminist movement of the 1960s that read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” It then occurred to me that a psychiatrist without a clinical pharmacist would find himself or herself in that same lamentable position.
Scott D. Mendelson, MD, PhD
Roseburg, Oregon