Posted by emmanuel98 on July 13, 2010, at 21:55:04
In reply to Re: Progress of Psychiatry » weatherfreak, posted by jade k on July 13, 2010, at 18:45:22
I have to jump in and defend psychiatry. My p-doc sees me once a week for an hour. For this he gets paid $115, including my copay. He could be seeing 4 patients in this time and getting 50-65 dollars per patient, but even med patients he sees for half-an-hour at a time. I recently stopped meeting with him weekly for therapy and he still sets aside an hour for monthly med visit, for which he gets $115. He is cautious about meds and urges me to get off after a year, see how I do without them, so I'm not dependent for life. He also urged me to see a DBT therapist, so I was not just depending on him for psycodynamic therapy. So there are good p-docs out there. Many of them. It's true, he is older and made his money to buy his big house and cottage on the cape when he was younger and insurance reimbursements were higher. But now he is satisfied and not greedy and wants to do the best by his patients.
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