Posted by willyee on January 27, 2006, at 10:39:34
In reply to Re: Psychiatrists who don't have time to talk » ed_uk, posted by 4WD on January 25, 2006, at 22:21:35
> > Am I missing something here? I was always under the impression that psychiatrists were supposed to TALK to their patients. I keep hearing of 'meds only' psychiatrists who apparantly perform 10 minute 'med checks'. Would someone please tell me how a psychiatrist is supposed to choose an appropriate medication if they haven't even talked to their patient for long enough to understand what their problem is?
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> I think my old pdoc had a list of meds. (Seriously). He'd start at the top and go down the list. But first we'd have to try various doses of the first one and then next visit, try adding an augmentation to it, then next visit try a different dose of one or the other (the med or the augmenter) and then next vist, switch to a different augmenter and so on and so on.
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> I got the distinct feeling that the whole process was simply designed to keep me coming back for those $160 med checks as long as possible. He was perfectly happy to have the process last as long as possible. Never mind that I'd go in for a vist, he'd make a minute change and consign me to another month of hell. He'd never change two things at once (he said it would be too hard to tell which was causing the effects). Finally after almost a year I gave up on him.
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> Marsha
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My god have you been hiding in the closet on my visits and stole my stories, i think you mentioned my exper word for single word
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