Posted by Gabbette on August 6, 2008, at 17:28:39
In reply to Re: I hope this makes sense. » Dinah, posted by Sigismund on August 6, 2008, at 16:37:58
I actually had a psychiatrist admit I had a point.
I give her credit for saying it, but it was still disturbing. She was new to me and wanted me to take seroquel (it was at the time the seroquel pens and mugs were making the rounds)
instead of clonazepam. I said I was really doing fine on what I was taking, because I was.
She gave me the lecture on "Well the long term effects of clonazepam are, blah, memory loss, lethargy"I asked her "How long as Seroquel been out, 2 years or so?" She said "Yes"
I said "Well then, how can you tell me that the long term effects of taking it aren't going to be worse"She then said "You have a good point"
Either, she thought I would just not notice
her nonsensical argument, or she honestly didn't think of that herself and was regurgitating
the pharm literature, there's really no good inference to make there.She probably added a new dx to my chart, like "Difficult patient personality disorder"
but I didn't stay with her long enough to find out.One more anecdote that has nothing to do with anything.
I had a dermatologist (who I now know is notorious for doing this- really you can see for yourself on "Rate M.D" Dr. Kunimoto) once tell me he wasn't going to look at my "problem" because
there wasn't one, He was sitting across from me about 5 feet away. REally, it was that weird. our first meeting, it was like the twilight zone.
He just said "NO" I'd been waiting 2 months to see him.And I said "Could you look, it's scaring me"
He said "No, you may as well tell me green aliens are behind you"I was so upset, because this thing wss very painful, and ugly.
So traumatized and in shock I told the same psychiatrist I just mentioned and she said
"That's just his manner"
That's when my head would have done the exorcist swirl if at all possible.And I said "If I acted that way to you, you would have another Dx on my chart in 10 seconds, that's ludicrous" I left I mean, thinking "This is part of the reason I *need* medication"
And of my favourite quote
"Hell is a place without reason"
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