Posted by Racer on September 24, 2004, at 13:36:11
In reply to Re: My Pdoc Experience, posted by Aphrodite on September 21, 2004, at 10:20:38
> BTW, I'm not taking the medication. I'm so loopy right now that I feel like I need a competent and caring person to monitor anything I might take.
>
>That's not "loopy", that's just a healthy attitude!
Did you hear that? That pdoc was wrong. That is neither humane nor respectful. That is not adequate medical care. That is not professionally responsible. She was not a good doctor.
So what does this mean about you? It means that, despite the message she sent you, you're healthy enough and have high enough self esteem to recognize that you *deserve* better treatment than she was capable of offering you.
What to do now? Fire her. You do deserve better, and there are better out there.
If it helps you, you can also feel some compassion for her, that she's gone through all that schooling and still hasn't become competent enough to perform in the real world. It's so sad, isn't it? Or you could keep in the back of your mind that a lot of the psychiatrists in this world are those folks who were at the bottom of their class in med school, and just didn't have enough on the ball to work out everything they'd need to be neurologists or podiatrists (all those bones?) or even PCPs. Or you could even tell yourself that she's expressing her own fears and insecurities about her own abilities by prescribing meds for others whom she can look upon as weaker or less capable then she. Or you can just say she wasn't a good fit for you.
At any rate, you are in no way the problem in that experience, my dear. You just caught a bad'un. I'm sorry it happened to you, but it's good that you recognized it in time to get out before it did any more damage to you.
Best luck.
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