An Interview with Awais Aftab, M.D of Psychiatry at the Margins
A collaboration, right here on Substack.
The Frontier Psychiatrists started as a room on Clubhouse with Carlene MacMillan, M.D…. It has turned into this newsletter written by Owen Muir, M.D. I love writing here on Substack because I get to connect with people like
who writes . He’s an interview I did with him. More collaborations to come, perhaps?1. Owen: Why are you a psychiatrist?
Aftab: I’m a psychiatrist because I am intellectually fascinated by psychopathology and I want to improve the lives of people who are experiencing mental health problems. I realized pretty quickly in medical school that given my interests in psychology and philosophy, and given my particular temperament, psychiatry was really the only specialty that spoke to me. I grew up in Pakistan and attended medical school there, and due to the intense stigma that existed around psychiatry as a specialty at that time, I toyed with the idea of going into neurology or radiology, but ultimately, I realized that I won’t be happy doing anything else, and a…
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