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Plain answers to the things patients and families ask most often — written for people in Siliguri and North Bengal, not for other doctors.
Psychiatrist or psychologist — which one do you actually need?
These three words get used interchangeably in North Bengal, and choosing wrong wastes months. The distinction is simple once someone explains it.
Read 2026-08-08 · 6 min readWhy families in North Bengal wait years before seeing a psychiatrist
By the time most patients reach a psychiatric chamber here, the illness is years old. The reasons are predictable, and every one of them is answerable.
Read 2026-08-08 · 5 min readThe sleeping tablet you have been taking for two years
Chemist-counter sleeping tablets taken nightly for months are one of the most common presentations in a psychiatric chamber. Here is what is happening.
ReadYou do not have to sort this out alone
Call or send a WhatsApp message to fix a time with Dr. Sushovan Roy, MBBS, MD (Psychiatry). The chamber is open every day, 10 AM to 10 PM, at Kaberi Health Point, Subhas Pally, Siliguri.
