Posted by missjulie on June 23, 2007, at 20:17:32
In reply to Expensive docs, posted by saturn on June 23, 2007, at 15:34:41
Just went to one in Beverly Hills a couple weeks ago. $400 initial hour visit; $200 followups, doesn't deal with insurance besides providing receipt.
Could not tell the slightest difference between him and the many others I've seen. He said very little. WAS willing to prescribe Parnate which no one else had been, so mission accomplished, I guess.
This BH dr. came highly recommended by a friend who is really all over the map bipolar but I can't say I noticed ANY difference. (the best "psychopharm" I ever had was my gp as a teenager. He was the only one who communicated any caring, willingness to keep trying, encouragement, out of the box thinking, and this was the 80s, before they had many drugs - he was depressed too, so he understood)
I saw this bev hills guy as a last resort before traveling to NY to see Dr. Ivan Goldberg, as he deals with my problem (TR depression) or even the Amen clinic (not convinced brain scans really help, but I find some of the information in his books valuable, and some people swear by them). Think I will end up seeing one or the other or both... I DO still believe in specialists.
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