Posted by yxibow on October 28, 2006, at 2:26:50
In reply to Re: Why your doctor can make or break you » getinwl72, posted by Phillipa on October 25, 2006, at 13:13:19
> What a wonderful and caring doctor you have. Consider yourself lucky as you found out most are not like that. And trust is so important. Love Phillipa keep waiting to see this one it's worth it as I'm sure you know
I agree, that trust is an important bond of the doctor-patient relationship.
Quite a while ago in my ongoing saga of a disorder we had said that it was sort of a two way street, an analogy that he is steering the bus and I'm in the seat, and I occasionally look over the window to see that we're not going off the road.
I am in a unique situation with a doctor that trusts me with medication as I have done few "experiments" outside of our prescribed regime and therefore he trusts me with a certain (not infinite) number of refills of X, Y, and Z (not to mention all the rest of the alphabet [humour], but he may give fewer refills for controlled (C-IV and above) medications than for uncategorized medications (e.g. Cymbalta.)
We agreed on a certain comfortable amount of refills because, while it may come from part of OCD worry, and my fear of death of myself or anyone (basically, the fear that if he goes off to a conference and the plane is lost over the ocean, I am s*** out of luck with my medication even if he has a covering doctor, I would not want to go to an ER and have to explain the reasons for certain doses of medications.).
I did have a doctor die on me, although that was shortly after I transitioned to my current one as a "better fit" (the other poor guy loved flying his own plane and would take a jet back to his home state on the weekend and take his own plane to his house and he died in a snowstorm although he was warned about the conditions... at any rate, lets not end on too dour of a note.)
-- tidingsJay
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