Dr Chang Wing-chung is a clinical assistant professor at the department of psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing Faculty of Medicine and works in Queen Mary Hospital.
What attracted you to psychiatry?
Psychiatry is quite different from other medical specialities. It has long been regarded as the 'Cinderella' of medicine because it is relatively less developed, due to the complexities of the brain.
In psychiatry, the patients' complaints are different; they mainly complain about subjective experiences of mood, and about delusions and hallucinations.
Today, even though psychiatry has advanced in technology, it still does not benefit from investigative methods like blood tests or brain scans to help make diagnoses.
I find psychiatry fascinating. Observing the symptoms is even more fascinating.
What did you have to study?
