Posted by cecilia on April 9, 2006, at 5:02:03
In reply to Re: I get frightened when I read this sort of thing, posted by cecilia on April 9, 2006, at 3:06:15
I mean, I know a lot of people will say, oh doctors must be so smart, they go through 4 years of college and 4 years of med school and 3 years of residency. For pdocs, so what. 99% of med school has nothing to do with psychological issues, even though most people with physical problems also have psychological issues, doctors generally ignore them, and residency is mostly dealing with hospitalized patients. When they get out into the real world and set up their private practices to start raking in the dough, pdocs only have to know about a few dozen meds for mostly depressed and anxious but functional patients, as long as they can write their prescriptions fast enough they'll be able to pay back their student loans and get rich. How many brains does it take to do that? All they have to do is figure out how to tell the bipolars from the unipolars, and how to keep people like me who've failed every med ever made to keep coming back (prescribe sleeping pills). (Though realistically, I'm sure most just wish the failures wouldn't come back.) I guess I haven't a clue about what these pdocs supposedly know about "context". They barely know who you are. My current pdoc is quite nice (and believe me I've had some horrible ones) but if I could write my own prescriptions I could care less if I ever saw him again. Cecilia
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