Public criticism of psychiatry is well taken in some areas, such as neglect of the chronic psychotic patient. Public mistrust of professionals in general is coupled with the demand for more physicians and student demand for relevance, all of which may lead to a degradation of scholarship. Graduate teaching should not be just to produce craftsmen; there must be opportunities to pursue “useless” knowledge. Government interference has added to the overmanagement of medicine. Rules and regulations proliferate—from the public, the National Board, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)—while movements to shorten the undergraduate, medical school, internship, and residency years are gaining support. Change may be good, but large-scale changes must be adequately debated and discussed rather than casually ordered without proper evaluation. Psychiatrists serve as bridges between genetics, biology, and all of clinical medicine on the one hand and the behavioral sciences on the other. Their scholarship must not be neglected.