Posted by ksvt on July 1, 2000, at 23:14:56
In reply to Re: Do your docs communicate?, posted by JohnL on July 1, 2000, at 3:30:29
> My various doctors and/or counselors have consulted over the year. The reasons were either: my request; to get another opinion on my history and diagnosis; to confirm what has already been tried and what the results were. I don't think any teamwork collaboration ever took place though. It was mainly a comparing notes kind of thing.
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> The only doctor who really impressed me with his professional consultation was Dr Jensen. After the one hour-long phone consultation with me, he faxed my local doctor his diagnosis, reasons for the diagnosis, a review of drugs already tried and what their responses meant about my chemistry, drugs to try, exactly why those drugs should be tried, what chronolocial order the drugs should be tried, and what to do in case of adverse reactions. Prior to the consultation, he called my local doc personally to get his side of the picture before talking with me. The whole thing was pretty darn impressive. But in my experience it was also pretty darn rare.Harry you're not asking too much. My pdoc used to also be my therapist but at some point I didn't seem to be getting anywhere and he helped me find my present therapist. I've discovered that they communicate reasonably frequently, alot of it precipitated by my psychiatrist who likes to monitor what's going on. When my therapist leaves town for more than a week or so she tries to get me to go see the psychiatrist or she gets him to call me. I'm not sure how much of a difference all this makes. i went through a real slide this winter and no one made any suggestions about changing meds until I raised the issue. Nonetheless, it's sort of reassuring to know that the communication is there and that my psychiatrist feels he should stay involved even though I really don't see him very often.
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