Posted by Meri-Tuuli on May 28, 2006, at 8:56:48
In reply to Re: List of top Pdocs in US-Canada?-Linkadge, posted by Tom Twilight on May 28, 2006, at 6:48:09
Hi Tom!
Yeah, I've been thinking about going over to North America to get treated too. Its top of my list if I ever win the lottery!!!! LOL!!
I'm kicking myself for not getting an appointment or something when my bpyfriend was living and working in Boston and I went over once or twice a year. Oh well.
Speaking of which, I'd recommend going to Boston to see a pdoc purely because Boston has a European feel about it, and its very easy to get around with public transport and its not too big. New York freaked me out abit. Even the airport is well connected to the (cheap) subway system. And I bet there must be alot of pdocs around with Harvard, MIT, etc being located there. Also, I'm guessing the East coast is better, simply because the flights are alot cheaper than going to anywhere else.
> Psych medicine is still in the dark ages here.....
Yeah it definately is. I honestly can't believe how little pdocs here know about medications, and how stigmatised stimulants and benzos are. And they don't seem to be aware that you can actually combine the drugs too. Sometimes I wish I could print out some of the regimens that some babblers are on, and see what they say about them. I bet their eyes would pop out!! My pdoc is under the impression that reboxetine has been discontinued - well, its in the March edition of the BNF...
That said, I saw my pdoc on Thursday, and we talked for 35mins. And it was free!! And I honestly felt that he cared about me, and was a decent person.
Well anyway -- I wonder why the NHS is so in the dark ages re: psychiatry. I suppose its all to do with funding and the general set up of the system. I mean, if you're a pdoc here, its not as if your patients are going to go to another pdoc because you're not treating them well enough (in terms of medication etc). And because you're employed by the state, its not as if you depend upon patients for your income. So you don't need to bother that much about keeping up with the latest developments of medications etc or be that good. I'm begining to think that private healthcare is a good thing! That or performance related pay. Yeah, that woould be good.....
Kind regardsMeri
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