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Claim: Psychotropic drugs should not be prescribed by just any health

care professional.
Qualifier: Psychiatrists should be the only healthcare providers to be
referred to as consult to diagnosis and prescribe cases of
mental/behavioral health.
Good reasons: Misdiagnosis can lead to substance abuse, suicide, and
cases of psychotic outbreak.
Warrants: Nurse practitioners, general practitioners, internists, primary
care physicians, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and other
advance practice nurses do not obtain the adequate knowledge of
psychiatry and psychiatric pharmacology to properly diagnose, assess,
and treat mental/behavioral health cases.
Backing: Primary care physicians only do one clinical rotation for
psychiatry in medical school where psychiatrists study this for 4 years.
Evidence: The number of undiagnosed cases where psychotropic drugs
were prescribed is significantly higher in non-psychiatry specialists.
Authority: Denise Mann
Conditions of Rebuttal: Some study psychiatry as a minor.
Responses: Majority of them do not and subsequently misdiagnose and
prescribe.
Revision

I think that educating myself more on the counterargument will better

prepare me for my response to it. I can imagine that someone arguing
against this, perhaps a primary care physician, would have much more
reliable counter-argument. The only way I can improve my response is
to better educate myself on the counter-argument itself.