Posted by Think1234 on June 16, 2006, at 14:54:54
In reply to re: finding good pdoc; Groupthink. » Think1234, posted by pulse on June 16, 2006, at 4:14:11
My bad, I read through your post very superficially. 14 seemed peculiarly high. It was the first line "as far as finding a good pdoc, i've seen 14 in 26 yrs." That threw me. Yes 14, goes against common sense and would imply that you must have met a ton of Pdocs.
Its bipolar "mania" its seems for a lot of psychiatristics. So does that mean everyones' "manic" or are they the ones who are "manic"?
I wonder if its possible to arrange to have a good Pdoc by scheduling long distance phone calls. And having them send the prescription by phone. I'm sure its been done before, but I wonder how easy it is.
> NO! i found only TWO good pdocs - 20 years apart - out of the FOURTEEN that i've seen, in coming up on THIRTY years.
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> i'd call that: VERY discouraging!
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> i lived in a rural area for the first 15 years of this, then out of state - also rural, then back here to the business district of my original home town, then, lastly, in a suburban area near said town - all an hour or more's drive from a major city.
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> i have no clue what 'they' are doing now with bipolar and the whole spectrum deal - nor why. earlier, i thought of the bipolar spectrum concept as novel, exciting, and with much promise; now i see it as just too much...an ever-increasing hodge-podge, to explain the unexplainable, with great promise for yet more garbage can diagnosing. bpII is the (current) dx du jour.
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> i don't doubt you have a point re: liability.
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> pulse
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