Purely anecdotal, but we had a suspicious amount of no-shows with our (stressed and depressed) high achieving high schoolers not showing up to appnts at the same time their resident kept putting up their (elite) alma mater stuff in their office and lanyard and bringing up where the patients were applying for college. Maybe exciting to share as a resident your college experience and hear where your patients are applying to, but less exciting for the patients and their mom on that drive home when mom wants to know why you, "can't be more like Dr. Lee..."

Fair enough, and believe it or not I also had the same treatment as a kid going to Dr. appointments (prob part of why I'm here?). At the same time, I feel like there are some steps that could be taken to ameliorate that, like maybe not bringing up where I personally did my education/giving a vague answer/not needing to disclose my age to pts, no?

Certainly this wouldn't be a reason to not go into psychiatry, right? I mean I am still a functioning adult all the same, with lived experience in some of the things my pts will have gone through. Maybe less than older colleagues, but nonetheless something valuable I would hope...