[robg]

Slow to adapt comes from many factors. We've been studying the history of medical innovation. The biggest hurdle is the training time required. We're talking a decade to get credentials. Then another decade to get experience. Those 20 years are hard work (schooling, residency, long hours, loans, meager pay). By the time they're ready to contribute, risks are not a good thing esp adding to the chance of doing harm to patients. So the status quo persists until the next generation comes along.

We're meeting mental health professionals who were trained in the 60s, 70s, and 80s who proudly claim they know little about the brain. I don't blame them entirely - when they were trained we only knew about the human brain from stokes and open head trauma. To get them up to speed requires a whole new training. That's very hard when you spend all week seeing patients - that's your livelihood.