Posted by med_empowered on June 23, 2007, at 21:30:51
In reply to Re: Expensive docs, posted by rvanson on June 23, 2007, at 20:46:14
I think I had good experiences with a college shrink. I mean, some of his prescribing was...odd, but he had a goal: to keep students functioning. Shrinks I saw after then were kind of..just medicating; they saw symptoms, I suppose, but they didn't really see the POINT, which is that patients have things to do and drugs need to help make pulling everything together a little less difficult.
From what I've seen and read, it just seems like super-expensive docs are more willing to go for benzos and stimulants and maybe other off-label stuff (like opiates for depression), and they're probably more responsive to patient's problems. Other than that...I don't see how paying more can really give you more, since shirnks don't do much more than write srips.
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