Recent content by docksan

Yes well skeptical surgeon is thanking God they consulted psych when they get sued and listened, or, screaming loudly at a mirror when he has to pay out for not listening to our medical recs and the patient dies.

Or Dysthesis.

I guess that I just default back to "do I really want to use my time and energy arguing with someone who has no idea what they're doing or do I want to affect a little change and educate everyone else involved in this patients care" because frankly a lot of psychological harm is inflicted at the...

Lol k

And as a C/L I'll tell you these are all great opportunities to make comments in your assessment that reduces the likelihood they abuse you in the future. Would you rather them not consult us and then they hurt the patient?

If a patient is telling their therapist they're concerned about the dose tapering, especially with a patient who has been on it a long time, chances are pretty good they have a better rapport with their therapist than you. That being said, I tend to do longer tapers with my patients because I...

It's easier to do a prelim year and match into a psych PGY2 spot than it is to do an IM residency and transfer out. You can do it, it's very challenging and requires you to communicate with program directors on both ends to do it.

I've just only heard about this from reading the thread and within two sentences I'm insanely skeptical about "brain spotting".

I have no idea why you need to pseudointellectualize "I should be able to prescribe what I want to whoever I want" but psychiatry isn't about meeting market demand to prescribe Adderall recreationally because people want to focus better. It's dangerous practice and there's a reason there's a...

Whether something is within scope or not isn't really relevant though. It's about comfort level and competence. Can I do surgery? Yes, it's in my scope. Would you want me to? No. The danger isn't necessarily whether you can, it's whether you should. As you said, when you get lots of exposure...

No shortage of "how do I bill for therapy in my practice" posts and threads from MLPs so yea absolutely. For as many people out there who think Psychiatry is "take some pills, get better" there are people who think therapy is "talk about things".

Love the QTc, love the QRS and JT more.

You forgot PTSD and Schizophrenia, commonly comorbid with Bipolar attention deficits.

I'd have paid off student loans already if someone gave me money every time someone with "bipolar" actually had ADHD.

With logic like that we shouldn't have medical specialties either and every doctor should just know everything.