Posted by LostBoyinNC on June 27, 2000, at 10:27:59
In reply to Ignorant but with the power to prescribe, posted by FredPotter on June 26, 2000, at 20:09:10
> I went to the "psychiatrist" yesterday with a bad
> attack of anxiety and depression. I had been recommended by someone else to take Buspar. He said that it's a benzodiazepine and therefore addictive. I told him he was wrong. I said I took Xanax and that was a benzo. He had to look that up in his book. I said I also take Celexa. His reply was "yes, but have you tried a SSRI?". I said it WAS a SSRI. He said the only pill he might consider for short term treatment of anxiety was 70mg Prozac per day. Presumably all in one dose. Sure to make anyone anxious I should think. I think he was mixed up with OCD.
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> He then lectured me on fierce dogs, fight and flight, relaxation and CBT. That there was no pill for my symptoms and never would be.
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> Has anyone else come across such ignorance? Do you reckon I should report him?
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> FredYes, you should report him to your state medical board. He sounds like an old time type of psychiatrist, the type who got into psychiatry because he likes the talk therapy stuff. We dont need more psychiatrists like that. If he wanted to do CBT and talk therapy and stuff he should have become a PhD psychologist instead of a Medical Doctor. Psychiatrists are the experts in drugs and Psychopharmacology(supposedly at least).
That guy should have prescribed you some meds if you are that bad off. He is a Psychiatrist, a Medical Doctor yet has no clue about psychiatry drugs. Therefore, he has no business staying in medicine and keeping his medical license to practice medicine.
That guy is just playing around with your health basically and needs to be gotten rid of from psychiatry. Definitely do report him to your state medical board. Also, you can report him to the Better Business Board for consumer fraud. That is, you can say you went to him for drug consultation but he was incompetent, didnt even know the drug basics. That you knew more about the drugs than he did.
Fuck all these incompetent psychiatrists...run them out of business if they cant cut it. Psychopharmacology rules!
Eric
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