Posted by NKP on November 16, 2008, at 13:45:38
In reply to Re: Is this person overmedicated? » NKP, posted by Phillipa on November 16, 2008, at 12:16:41
Her first pdoc diagnosed her with unipolar depression and treated her with SSRIs, benzodiazepines, and Seroquel. She was OK most of the time, depressed some of the time, and functional.
Her new pdoc has diagnosed her with bipolar depression, and also claims she has epilepsy, despite the fact that she has NO epilepsy symptoms, and without having yet received her EEG results. Ever since he began treating her, she is depressed most of the time, OK some of the time, and dysfunctional.
He also did a brain scan on her, why I don't know. The report came back clear, yet he claims there are white spots on the scan indicative of epilepsy.
When I share my concerns with people that she is not being correctly treated, and that her old pdoc was better, they respond something to the effect that "he's the doctor, he knows best, stop thinking you know more than the doctor".
I think her pdoc is a pill-happy, diagnosis-happy, greedy, evil quack. Is it a coincidence that he is one of the main shareholders in the clinic where she spent two weeks?
Probably when her medical insurance runs out, he'll decide that she's cured.
I'm sorry for being so cynical, but I am not happy with what is happening.
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