Wednesday, March 23, 2011
"Doing meds," versus treating people
New York Times: "Since psychiatrists no longer get adequate pay for doing talk therapy, they instead prescribe medication, usually after a brief consultation with each patient, then they send the patient away with a referral to a less costly therapist and a personal crisis unexplored and unresolved." Medicine in the United States is now dominated by large hospital groups and corporations. One blogger, a retired psychiatrist, responds.
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Well doesn't that just mean the psych is in the wrong crowd? I've seen this so many times I've just been disgusted. Giving drugs to an addict and sending them away knowing they are addicts and will most likely abuse the drugs? Nope they get very littel sympathy from me.
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