Posted by jane d on March 9, 2011, at 0:08:58
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?ref=health&src=me&pagewanted=all
Also the comments at: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/less-talk-more-medicine/
There was an interesting, and fairly critical, profile in last Sunday's NY Times of a psychiatrist describing why he switched from doing talk therapy to just doing 15 minute med checks.
My own problem with this is not that he is using medication instead of talk therapy although that is the focus of a lot of the critical comments. I believe that the right medication at the right time can be a wonderful thing. But I can't see how he can actually do a decent job providing that in the limited time he is spending with his patients.
I found this article horrifying. The psychiatrist I saw didn't do this but he certainly sounds like many that have been described here. Is this really what most of them are like today? If so, why would anyone pay for this?
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