Posted by sedona on March 9, 2005, at 21:22:23
In reply to Why Don't Pdocs Know Meds?, posted by Phillipa on March 9, 2005, at 9:41:06
I know what you are saying. I have had a psychiatric nurse and a psychiatrist for drugs. The psychiatric nurse left her practice to become a drug rep, which says a bit about her. My psychiatrist that I like a bit more though also seems to get 95% of his drug information from the studies done by the drug companies. He did give me a drug that made me totally suicidal for the two months I took it. When I called to ask him if the obsession with suicide could be a side-effect, he simply said he had never heard of it. Months later I brought it up again and apparently he had eventually read the side-effect profile which plainly listed suicidality. It's like they both lacked the ability to question the authority of the drug companies. They never learned how to be a critical thinker. The nurse was even on an antidepressant, but since it worked well for her with no side-effects she trusted the companies and their info, and instead questioned her patients.
I'll stop now, because I could complain about this forever.
> How come it's us the pts that do all the research on psych drug, alternative tx's, and have to tell them about them? Are they so blind that they really believe all the drug companies tell them? What about the docs that take meds too? Don't they experience side effects and wonder why also? It's been on my mind. What do you think? Fondly, Phillipa
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