Posted by Althea8869 on January 28, 2004, at 23:17:29
In reply to Re: kick backs from drug companies!, posted by ann33 on January 28, 2004, at 16:47:41
One psychopharmacologist I spent some time with at Harvard explained things to me this way: Young doctors, naive(though possibly very bright), with limited real experience and the desire to build a practice open themselves up to drug companies and can reap benefits from doing so. This is a great but unfortunately necessary indoctrination process for them. The advantage(also disadvantage) of young doctors is that (at least in my experience) they often are more willing to explore alternative treatment methods...combos..etc. For typical unipolar or other "textbook" situations these docs will do a fine job. However, as more 'atypicals' are coming forward for help, these folks are really out of their league. What this doc told me, candidly, is that he had to to the same thing right out of school, but now after being a psychopharmacologist for nearly thirty five years as well a professor at Harvard and MIT he no longer sees pharm reps and has a breadth of practical expereince to work from. These are the docs that the atypicals really need to search out. Interestingly, the doc that I am talking about here no longer prescribes ANY medication for depression. He has, over the last fifteen years, found that the correct combination of supplements in conjunction with proper eating and excersize has statistically a higher success rate for complete recovery than any single other method employed, and in point of fact he has twenty years of unbiased evidence to prove it. I wont get into the supplements in this forum, but my general point is that atypicals really need to look to someone that will be less under the influence of pharma's.
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