psychiatry

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mind and mental illness. Its primary goal is the relief of mental suffering associated with symptoms of disorder and improvement of mental well-being. This may be based in hospitals or in the community and patients may be voluntary or involuntary. Psychiatry adopts a medical approach but may take into account biological, psychological, and social/cultural perspectives. Treatment by medication in conjunction with various forms of psychotherapy may be undertaken and has proved most effective in successful treatment.

Psychiatry in professional practice
Psychiatrists are doctors of medicine or osteopathy and are certified in treating mental illness using the biomedical approach to mental disorders.[6] Psychiatrists may also go through significant training to conduct psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and/or cognitive behavioral therapy, but it is their medical training and ability to prescribe medications that differentiates them from other mental health professionals

i think i might have found my direction in life! (: (: (:
which only means i have to work my ass off to land a place in NUS med school.

it's either this or dietetics