Posted by alexandra_k on February 16, 2005, at 14:18:16
In reply to Re: p-doc and coming assessment » alexandra_k, posted by judy1 on February 16, 2005, at 11:35:58
> can you go to medline (for articles) or Amazon (for books) to see if any of the authors are in NZ?
Yes, I can. Best I can figure is that there really isn't anyone over here.
>what about University Medical Centers- they often have pdocs who specialize in less common disorders and have studies going where you don't pay anything for therapy.
Not over here. There is funding to see a private psychiatrist up to 3x per year for a meds assessment / prescription if a uni GP refers you for that. There aren't any psychiatrists attached to the uni directly. Councelling at uni clinics is all done by peoples with a Masters in Councelling (a type of education degree) and it is not geared towards mental illness. Those with mental illness are supposed to be referred on to the public service that I am battling with at the moment.
>I know the population is fairly low there
Yup yup yup. I do believe that is half the battle.
> but it is difficult to believe that there are no specialists in your area- especially since DDs are being diagnosed more often.
Ah, but it seems that they are really not being diagnosed over here. We have gone the English way and the majority of clinicians think it is just so much BS. Australia is ok, more people over there (I think after xxxx got debarred from the US for malpractice and went to set up shop over there??? - something like that).
I tried to get hold of the medical statistics. Wanted to know if ANY cases had been diagnosed in NZ. I sent them the DSM IV code and asked for stats on number of times the code was used for hospitalisations etc. They sent back to me saying the stats were done on ICD-9 criteria and there DID along with a lot of other syndromes are lumped together in some kind of 'not otherwise specified' catch-all category. I wrote back querying why they were using such an outdated coding manuel - that the ICD-10 classifications would be more useful to me but no reply... Hmph.
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