Posted by Eric on March 16, 2001, at 10:02:45
In reply to Abusive psychiatrists, posted by Fred Potter on March 15, 2001, at 18:00:52
> Can someone please advise me? I've just had a horrible meeting with a psychiatrist who favours the confrontational approach. He is a sort of behaviourist so he had told me to give up Prozac, which I'd been prescribed 2 weeks before by another pdoc. And to stop taking Xanax or he wouldn't treat me. I told him that wasn't safe done suddenly. He said it is quite often and if I felt happier I could stop it 4 3 2 1. I said if he told patients to stop it suddenly he was being irresponsible, which is where all the name calling started. "Incredibly adolescent", "a 5 year old", "unbelievably arrogant" etc. My wife was present and it didn't help when she agreed. He would occasionally snigger to my wife over some sad fact that I came up with, like the contents of my medicine cupboard.
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> So now he's refusing to treat me. I could try giving up Xanax, but why when it helps? I thought CBT worked better in combination with drugs. Where should I go from here ?
> Thanks for reading this
> FredReporting this person to your state Medical Board is the best idea. Very few Pdocs expect that to happen, as most people dont even know about the Medical Board thing. And doctors like it that way too. No MD likes getting a complaint from the Medical Board, it will give them an Excedrin headache for a few days.
Sometimes a complaint from the medical board will straighten out a psychiatrist's attitude problem, which many of them do have.
Advice: dont be excessively emotional in your report to the Medical Board. Dont come across like a raving lunatic or anything to them in the complaint. Just report the facts as you see them and tell them your Pdoc is jerky acting. Write a professional looking written complaint to them and the board will pay more attention to that. Use good quality resume paper for the final report you send them, use a laser printer, no typos, proper grammar, no profanity, etc.
Eric
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