Like any medical professional, there are adequate ones and bad ones and excellent ones. A solid psychiatrist evaluates and diagnoses patients, and prescribes (not “doles out”) medication appropriately to treat psychiatric conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and many others. It’s life-saving.
Suggesting that prescribing medication is somehow nefarious is dismissive of the 8+ years of training and the extremely important role that psychiatrists play in health care.