A brief note from Pakistan: reflections from a British psychiatrist

Abstract

A British general adult psychiatrist born and trained in the UK, who also considers himself Pakistani, had the opportunity to spend 2 weeks running a psychiatric clinic in a remote hospital in the Punjab province of Pakistan. In this article he offers some reflections on the unexpected culture shock he felt, on the hospital system, the patients he treated and their resilience in such a poor country.

Keywords

• Pakistan
• mental health services
• polypharmacy
• lower-middle-income countries
• poverty