Posted by ace on February 27, 2003, at 19:08:12
In reply to Re: Is diagnosis important ?, posted by stjames on February 27, 2003, at 10:49:23
> > > > > A GP cannot diagnose mental illnesses.
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> > > > That is NOT correct.
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> > > Well, if you want to receive treatment from someone who has no training in treating mental illness, go right a head !
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> > Not true again. Each doctor has to study for 1 year psychiatry as part of their training. In addition a LOT of psychiatric patients DO get treated from family docs. For instance, my family doc has over 30 psych patients. In addition family docs have to keep up on current literature on ALL specialties. They have a much broader knowledge of medicine than pdocs and, in my opinion, are much more well balanced ( In my time I have seen over 10 pdocs - 2 of them were caring and honest, the rest were patronizing, lazy, rude, and standoffish. I will never see a psychiatrist again. The last one I saw, and this was the FINAL straw, stated 'all your friends must think your a weirdo")
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> > Ace
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> 1 year of study, yikes ! How about several years of practice in seeing patients with mental illness ? That menas a lot more than 1 year of study.
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>I know what your saying, but some (older GP's) have been seeing psych patients for years too. Gp's must keep up with the psych literature and obviously have to associate with pdocs.
If someone wants to see a pdoc, great. But I've just been too mistreated and hurt in the past before to ever see one again.
ST-James - if you have a good caring psych it's a great idea to stay with him/her and I am happy for you. But my treatment with my GP is BETTER THAN ANY pdoc I've ever seen -- and I have seen a lot (being hospitalised before and all).
Peter Breggin has a good point in exposing the inadequacies of a lot of pdocs. Some are pure evil, and I'm sure they do it for a sense of power over another and to try and help themselves.
Of course some are lovely, caring, warm humans -- but i HONESTLY think this is the minority.
My GP has told me so many stories of wierd pdocs. The one he thought was most well balanced took a gun, shot his two daughters, himself and his wife. And this guy was treating people! Also a lot of them are on cocain -- this is unequivocal.
But if you feel good about yours thats great. but don't forget there are options.
Please tell me what you think.
Ace.
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