Posted by PhoenixGirl on April 3, 2001, at 15:47:26
In reply to Re: Bad doctors (Dr. Bob, someone, help!), posted by Sandra on April 2, 2001, at 17:08:14
Like was personality a factor?
> I found a good recommendation from going to a web site call Depression Central. The site is...
> www.psycom.net/depression.central.psychiatrists.html. In general it is a very good site. Go to the home page and explore it. There, Dr. Ivan Goldberg has a list of the best pdocs for mood disorders in the county. I e-mailed him and asked him how the list was put together and he said that numerous pdocs had compiled the list from names that they felt were people that they would want someone in their own family to go to if they needed to. I asked if they paid to get on the list and he said "No". There were 2 listed for my city - one no longer taking patients - too involved with research. So I went to the other. I was trusting in the fact that I could make a good judgement of him when I met him. I am a non pdoc psychotherapist and I have known so many pdocs that I would not go near! He is in a very modest setting, very helpful staff who spontaneously had really nice things to say about him. He was very good diagnostically and is taking a different medication approach than I have had before ( It didn't work for long in the past ). So far I'm very happy with him. Maybe that list will help you as well.
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> > Yes, Eric, that ridiculous doctor I wrote about was picked from (you guessed it) the yellow pages; his shiny high-rise office building seemed like an endorsement. A few other bad apples I found also worked in posh surroundings or right across the street from the hospital and these were found through strangers reading a list over the phone at my insurance company.
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> > When I finally struck gold it was through my friends' mom, who was a satisfied patient and had learned of this doctor through my friend's stepmom who is also a satisfied longtime patient. Now there are three of us who trust this doctor with our lives, and she seems to be the smartest p-doc in the world (as far as I have seen) and guess where she practices? In her modest, unkempt HOUSE.
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