Posted by Novelagent on August 21, 2012, at 10:51:56
In reply to Did I do the right thing?, posted by Christ_empowered on August 20, 2012, at 20:26:44
It sounds like you have obsessive tendancies to work on. People get handed difficult situations by others all the time, but they move on and don't point fingers and call people names.
I can't find anyone who accepts psychotic people as part of their psychotic practice largely because of actions like yours-- they're vengeful, conniving, and far more destructive than the thing they're avenging after. You're ruining people's lives and livelihoods. I asked during a recent consult for a referral to a private practice from a clinic director of a well-known hospital that has a community health clinic partnership he overseas. He said no one in the entire city accepts psychotic patients as part of a private practice, so I'd have to settle for a resident at a community health clinic, except maybe one lady, but he wasn't sure if she still saw psychotics, and even if she did, if she was accepting new patients. I mentioned there's one guy at a private practice that advertises on his site that he treats schizophrenia as one of thr illnesses he treats, but he charges $500 just for the first appointment.
I don't even know why you're asking us. You're asking if it's wrong to try to ruin someone's career. You already know the answer. You should be apologizing, and if the guy was smart, he would have just made it too annoying to get your record for you to bother-- there's no HIPAA law against requiring a nurse to be present while you look at your record, or making you fill out forms and mail them to an address and have 10 different times come up where you get a call saying you forgot to write some obscure legal term in your record request, requiring it to be re-sent so many times you eventually give up.
Yeah, thanks for reinforcing the stereotype that psychotics are more trouble than they're worth. If he was a private doc, you should have been thankful he was bothering to see you-- psychotic patents generally don't justify themselves in a cost-benefit analysis for most docs, that's why no one but residents desperate for credentials so they can eventually have a private botique practice dispensing klonopin to mildly neurotic, rich and pleasant patients and never see psychotics again.
> 7 years ago I had a counselor. He diagnosed Schizophrenia (I was being prescribed 60mgs/day Adderall, which he knew about) and pressured me to take Abilify and BuSpar through a family doc. When I told him I didn't want the Abilify anymore, he transferred me to a colleague w/o telling me. His records contains lies and ruined my treatment at a local mental hospital, thus wasting thousands of dollars.
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> Now he's working at a somewhat nearby (same state, maybe 40miles away) public health place, mostly dealing with drug users. I called his supervisor and laid out the story. My diagnosis is now Bipolar I, and my IQ estimate is much higher than his was. He also refused to hand over records in clear violation of HIPPAA until after I had him subpoenad as part of a Medical Board investigation.
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> I called his supervisor and basically said he'll push drugs on people and that if he doesn't like somebody, he'll screw them over. I said they should keep an eye on him.
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> Do you think this was a good or bad thing to do?
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