Congratulations on your ambition to combine medicine/Psychiatry and the arts. I think that Psychiatry can profit from painting, writing and other arts in a complex, high-ranking and interdependent way. I hope you permit me to say that I´m worried about some points in your answers about “work-life balance”. Working 18 hours per day and difficulties in saying can be dangerous. Please pardon an old Psychiatrist interfering on your personal life, but I would like to read more books from you in the future. This is important for Psychiatry.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
11 May 2017
Detlef Degner
Psychiatrist, MD, senior consultant
Department of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, Germany
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Joanna Cannon: Psychiatry and paperbacks
Congratulations on your ambition to combine medicine/Psychiatry and the arts. I think that Psychiatry can profit from painting, writing and other arts in a complex, high-ranking and interdependent way. I hope you permit me to say that I´m worried about some points in your answers about “work-life balance”. Working 18 hours per day and difficulties in saying can be dangerous. Please pardon an old Psychiatrist interfering on your personal life, but I would like to read more books from you in the future. This is important for Psychiatry.
Competing interests: No competing interests