How to Use psychiatrist in a Sentence

psychiatrist

noun
  • But the psychiatrist, Dr. Ryan Hall, wasn’t able to shed much light on the pastor’s health.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • One of the men had just been cleared from suicide watch by a psychiatrist.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years.
    Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • As a friend of mine says, a round of golf is cheaper than seeing a psychiatrist.
    WSJ, 10 July 2023
  • But Blackwell denied the abuse to a psychiatrist, who cleared him to return to ministry.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The busy public hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clichy has one psychiatrist on staff.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Why would a psychiatrist or an ob-gyn physician or nurse call the police to report a patient for their thoughts?
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The group worked with a local psychiatrist to start a peer support network called The Buddy Program.
    Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
  • It was founded by the late Eyad el-Sarraj, who was a human-rights activist and psychiatrist.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • In this novel, a psychiatrist decides his daily decisions will be ruled by a roll of the dice.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 22 May 2023
  • That summer, a psychiatrist on the East Coast was hired to do virtual visits on a part-time basis.
    Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The most prominent psychiatrists in Europe came to Norway to study Quisling’s mind, and try to find out if there was something wrong about him.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Email address: At the time of the shootings, the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years, and many of the telehealth providers had recently stopped seeing Chico patients.
    ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bruce Alan Kehr, M.D., an award-winning psychiatrist who's been in practice for 40 years, has seen it all throughout his career.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Thing is, that’s what psychiatrists like me are already doing.
    Gregory Scott Brown, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Solly: Darrow had asked a bunch of psychiatrists to perform these analyses of the two teenagers over several weeks.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Former psychiatrist Ann Heaslett, 60, who aims to run the six major world marathons in her retirement, feels exactly the same way.
    Stacey Lastoe, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the show, Melfi and Tony developed a close bond; the psychiatrist was aware of his crimes as a mobster but continued to meet with him as a therapist.
    Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
  • One in four never met with a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse for treatment.
    James Barron, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, long before Covid, 78% of psychiatrists had high levels of burnout, and more than 16% had major depression.
    Jessica Gold, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Ralph is hospitalised by his parents, on the advice of Dr. Chirinos, a very old-school psychiatrist.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Within the first few weeks of listing her home, Hammond, a psychiatrist, earned enough to cover her mortgage payment that month.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Their decision comes even as psychiatrists have said the 78-year-old Sirhan would likely not be a danger to anyone anymore.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Bardo explained to the psychiatrist that he’d been provoked.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Then we were warned that the friend, despite being a licensed psychiatrist, has a deathly and obsessive terror of dogs.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Grammar was another face for the series as Frasier Crane, the radio psychiatrist who went on to have his own spinoff, Frasier.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Scott Leibowitz joined the Boston clinic as a psychiatrist in training a year later.
    New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • Human brain waves were first recorded by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger in 1924.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Only this time, instead of a psychiatrist at a lonely psychiatric hospital, the cursed victim is the biggest pop star in the world.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The Fly director David Cronenberg costars in a rare acting role as the sinister psychiatrist who invites destruction onto the community.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024

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