Psychiatry is often misunderstood as “just prescribing medications.” In reality, it is one of the few specialties where brain, biology, behavior, and biochemistry  collide—sometimes with consequences that are subtle, and sometimes with consequences that are dangerous. Over the past two decades, my research and clinical work have focused on one recurring theme: medications do not act in isolation , and neither do patients. Two of my early publications—one on lamotrigine rash f