Posted by Gracie2 on March 17, 2002, at 15:48:10
In reply to Re: How do you confront a bad psychiatrist?, posted by spiroll on March 17, 2002, at 15:14:18
Good for you, I hope you stick with your plan to find a new psychiatrist. The way I see it, we don't pay all that money to be abused (directly or indirectly through insurance). Besides advice and medicine, we need a little compassion...
However, your general physician will probably be reluctant to prescribe psychiatric medication, although she might do so in the interim while you are waiting to see a new pdoc, and hopefully she'll be able to refer you to a good one. Psychology is a specialty just like orthopedics or oncology, and usually your family doctor does not have the training to prescribe long-term psychiatric medication. You must also understand the reluctance of any doctor to prescribe benzos
or other addictive drugs.
Good luck-
Gracie
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