Posted by garnet71 on May 27, 2009, at 23:46:33
In reply to PDoc refused meds - what should I do?, posted by garnet71 on May 24, 2009, at 11:49:48
I'm not sure what to do...I have about a week worth of meds left-buspirone; more than a week of d-amp, but out of Xanax. It was .25 as needed, but I got only 30 and had to recently take more than one per day. I am 2 weeks short on that. My new PDoc appt. is not for 17 days, so I'd be short 10 days of buspirone.
I got one of the office people to let me email the letter to her on tuesday afternoon, that I wrote to PDoc; for her to pass on to him, but I'm not sure she got it, but it should have been the correct email address. PDoc only is in the office on thursdays. I then left a message on the voice mail. Someone still should have called me back regardless of when he is in the office.
If I don't hear back from him tomorrow, I guess I should call the main hospital he is associated with to handle a complaint-or would that be a waste of time? I think they have patient advocacy people, or at least someone there who takes complaints.
PDoc is affiliated w/2 hospitals; the outpatient place I go to is somehow connected to a different hosp. than the one he works out of, and is associated with the monopoly medical system here, which is affiliated w/the medical school here. I don't know the organizational structure.
Or should I call a medical licensing board and skip that step?
In any case, it is unethical to leave someone without medications because the patient couldn't get an appointment with a new PDoc w/in 30 days after the doctor said his malpractice insurance doesn't work for the kind of treatment required; then to tell the patient to go to an ER to get the scripts filled, someone who doesn't have health insurance. An ER who will treat you like a drug seeker, and a big waste of health care resources.
I'm not sure I have the energy to do this. At least my panic attacks dissipated to mild anxiety today, but I'm exhausted.
I am in the process of getting health insurance thru my univ.-such a relief. I spent 2 hours looking through the list of PDocs today-there are over 300. No psychopharmacologists are indicated, but there are psychiatrists who are also neurologists; it appears common, though I never knew this. I'm torn between choosing the psychiatrist father of my former military doctor-the most compassionate human being I've ever known in my life--who happens to be on the list (and ironically wouldn't accept the military's insurance cause he went and asked his Dad if he'd see me a year ago)--or choosing among several who were educated at an ivy league medical school-there were a few. Trying to figure out if I should choose someone younger or older. That's a tough decision. I don't have much else to go by. I'm going to start calling them, but there are so many. I don't know how to do this. I think not having a good doctor has had severe effects upon my life in ways I would have never imagined years ago. If only I had known better then.
I've had the absolute worst medical care under psychiatrists over these past 8 years or so--all because there are few who would go through all the red tape to be on the military's insurance, though I've had insurance here and there in between, but didn't switch doctors. That was stupid. I had never known anyone else who saw a psychiatrist regularly who knew the difference, or at least anyone I talked about it with. They obviously are only the doctors who are desperate for patients. I found news articles today about that too.
I've gotten angry about this again. I just can't imagine why a doctor wouldn't cover you with meds until your next appt. I've already been taking 2 of them for months, what diff. does 10 days make to him? It certainly makes a lot of difference for me, my life.
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