On the 3rd Anniversary of the Clinic Opening

Medical care is often expected to be a reliable technique for saving lives, yet in reality it is a profoundly human and uncertain practice.

In psychiatry especially, treatment depends not only on diagnostic accuracy but also on the relationship between patient and clinician. As a result, a physician’s age, experience, values, and life history can all influence clinical practice. Because psychiatrists themselves live within finite time, they cannot take responsibility for an entire patient’s life, but only for support at a given moment.

This essay uses clinical experience in psychiatry as a starting point to examine the limits of the medical profession and the meaning of realistic support within it.

You can read the director’s message for our third anniversary here.

Director, Kayukawa Clinic, Yuhei Kayukawa, M.D. >