Posted by herpills on January 2, 2015, at 10:06:28
In reply to Re: psychiatry is an ougrowth of society, posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2015, at 17:47:12
Good post, I'd like to comment on a couple things-
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> And I said that I appreciated that the worst of the 'care' I got was due to clinician's being overwhelmed / not having time for me / resource constraints. Why I was not admittted when I needed to be. Why I was discharged early. Why I didn't get the help I needed. Why the 'help' that was offered was never enough. Why people didn't want to work with me. Why people needed to stop working with me.
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>I think a big part of the problem, at least from my experience and perspective, especially in community mental health, is that clinicians spend so much time "assessing" instead of simply listening to the patient and what their particular needs are, and then providing that service to the patient.
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> The more money you have the more money you can spend. The more money clinicians make the more power / control they have over the size of their workload / over only accepting cases where they feel they can help.
>This is one reason why I'm tired of hearing people complain about "Obamacare" or "socialized medicine". The fact is, no matter what healthcare system we have in place...the more money you have, the more options you will have, which means the better chance of receiving quality care.
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