Doctor Prefers Hesitant Parents Over Pill-Happy Ones

What message do you have for parents who are afraid to give medication to their kids? They're afraid of the side effects. They're afraid of the growth of the child. They just so against it with such a passion that is beyond words. >> I prefer to work with individuals and parents that are hesitant to give medicine than those that think that the solution to every problem lies in a pill model. I think that uh every time a prescription is written, it needs to be done thoughtfully. I think there are lots of instances where medications are overprescribed >> and people should be extremely cautious just like they're cautious with everything else in medicine. >> You need to you need to question you know do I need to give this medicine or that medicine also in the field of psychiatry. But if it makes sense, then sometimes you got to do what you got to