Posted by kazoo on June 13, 2001, at 0:36:18
In reply to Re: Psychiatrist Online?, posted by sl on June 12, 2001, at 19:45:44
> Let me be more specific.
> One who I can have a regular doctor/patient relationship with, who can write prescriptions and is knowledgeable about what to change my meds to.^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, that clears up everything, thank you very much!Do you think for one blistering moment that any self-respecting psychiatrist, or any medical person for that matter, will casually write you a script on-line, virtually sight-unseen? You might be better off trying to find an "800" number service to do that, good grief. There is, believe it or not, a human side to the "doctor/patient relationship" you so desire.
Listen to me, sl, I have a cousin who's a big cheese at Johns Hopkins Medical, with his own private practice in Bethesda, MD and he won't write me prescriptions. Nor will another relative who *is* a psychiatrist in NYC do the same. And both these individuals have known me since birth. They're responsible and respectable physicians who adhere to the rules of their discipline. Also, about 2 miles down the road from me lives a doctor who practices in Hartford, CT. He's known me for over 30 years and NOT ONCE has he ever written a script for me upon request. He has treated me when I was physically sick, like with the flu, and only when I wasn't able to get to my regular MD, and he was even skittish about doing that.
So unless you want stuff that grows hair, puts the UMPH back into your sex life, or ease heartbreak of psoriasis, you're not going to find what you're really looking for on-line, and when you sit right down and think hard about what you want to do along with this genre of medicine and treatment, you'll come to the startling realization that your sublime idealization is just a bit unethical (not to mention illegal), and somewhat tilted. Perhaps this will be the case in the future, but by then, brain transplants will be vogue.
What you need to do is to find a real, live psychiatrist, or psychotherapist, or psychopharmacologist, whom you can sit opposite of, for you to discuss your lot in life with using the King's English, for them to listen to you intently, so that they may pick up a pen and apply to a prescription pad to write out orders for medicine that you need and will help you. This is the way it is done. This is the way it's always been done. It is done this way because it is TIME TESTED, and it works well. Don't expect anything else because to do so would be to sell yourself short of getting real, quality help.
PERSONAL NOTE: enough is enough with this "do-anything/get-anything" on-line crap! I'm fed up with this! Is anyone else?
I rest my case.
(a stoic) kazoo
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