Posted by reefer on March 14, 2005, at 11:55:41
In reply to Why Don't Pdocs Know Meds?, posted by Phillipa on March 9, 2005, at 9:41:06
My experience is that the older docs 50+ dont have any interest in learning about the new drugs so they use the same old drugs they are used to using. Also at the time they studied to become doctors there wasn't nearly as much knowledge about the brain we have today. My mother is almost 60 years old and she is a doctor, she is not working in the psych field though and that's what she says at least. And then we have the younger docs, they have more knowledge about newer drugs which they wont prescribe because either they are afraid of using new drugs because they have no one(senior doc) to ask when patient complaints about this and that. Or they wont prescribe a drug because it's addictive and from the people i know studying to become doctors are trained to treat anyone asking for a benzo or close relative(the three Z's) as an addict. I once met a young doctor and asked him for Zopiclone to take on a as needed basis before exams. He said he could prescribe <sedative antihistamine>. And i went, but that will make me even more tired the next day, make my memory bad, give me poor concentration etc.... So i said Ambien or Sonata would be ok too. He just gave me a nasty smile saying no. He didn't even have to say no. The nasty smile was a huge no. So i left and instead i asked my mom to prescribe me some Zopiclone.
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