Posted by kingcolon on July 28, 2007, at 19:36:07
In reply to Re: docs and depression » ttee, posted by BabyBunny on June 24, 2007, at 13:54:48
> That's sad. They're people too. But it just makes me doubt psychiatric drugs even more.
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> Why are they giving out this stuff like candy if it's so terrible? Makes one wonder...
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> > BTW, Dr. Kay Jamison is a renowned expert on bipolar as suffers from the illness. But she is NOT a practicing psychiatrist and has a Ph.D in Psychology. Most all state medical boards have rules of conduct for physicians and one of them is not to practice if you have mental illness. Just like if you are a pilot, you can not take ANY psychiatric meds (even Prozac) and still fly. This is an automatic FAA grounding. A doctor would need to stop practicing if he needed to take psychoactive drugs, or take them and not tell anyone. They don't want surgeons operating on people while on mind alterning drugs. If they went for psychiatric help in their local community, the risk is too great. Doctors don't get treatment for depression and this leads to an increased percentage of suicides.
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I HAD to respond to this, as the whole thread seems to believe that doctors are not allowed to practice if they have mental illness or need to take psychiatric medicines. I am in health care, and personally know at least a half a dozen doctors who are in treatment for various mental illnesses, who see doctors themselves, and take psychoactive substances for appropriate treatment. Some of them are in physician's health programs which deal with this issue, and which virtually every state has. I know of several who are followed by the state medical boards as well. I'm not sure if you would be happy knowing this, but I sure am. State medical boards do NOT prohibit such doctors from practicing if they are receiving appropriate treatment; and there are countless doctors being treated entirely unknown to their medical boards as well. What I'm concerned about are the doctors who are not being treated and practice medicine. I would see any doctor in treatment without the slightest reservation if I knew he was being treated properly, including and in fact preferably those who are known to their medical boards and being monitored. The docs I know who are in treatment are some of the best I've ever met as they have been where we are.
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