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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox A similar thing just happened to my daughter. And I slept next to her and took her everywhere with me for six weeks till we finally found a doc who would prescribe the right meds for the right reasons so insurance would cover them. She's on the mend now but there's a lot of
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox clean up to do. And to be clear yes I'm 'in the field', Ive always loved medicine however that didn't blind me to the fact that the system is set up to foster and support LAZY A-S CALLOUS GREEDY HUMAN BEINGS PRACTICNG MEDICINE & INSURANCE COMPANIES MUCKING IT UP HORRIBLY.
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox Yeah I've heard all the excuses and I'm not impressed by a single one. Most of the good docs are chased out of practice by a myriad of factors. And if I was disgusted with the field of medicine before I started, after listening to fellow students talk sh!t about poor patients,
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox (Whoops that was 3/)
colleagues BLAME PATIENTS for their mistakes, been subjected to Docs who treat my daughter like some toy that they can sometimes show up for, tell her that they've done what they didn't (I know cause I was sitting right next to her and no you did not) and
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox then throw her away when things get too hot (and she’s not even a hard case, just medically complicated) she catches on to their BS; and as a clinician having to untangle patients from misdiagnoses Docs made who didn’t even TALK HUMAN TO THE PATIENT TO BEGIN WITH let alone
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox do the in-depth chart reviews and HEAVY research and thinking required to find out what the etiology really is or if not yet understood or known be able to say..."we just don't know yet, we are not that far advanced" vs cut them out or accuse them of faking or malingering, I
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox am all the more so now that I see the whole systemic picture. That said, do not mistake my position for one of being anti medication or anti medicine. The right meds and a good doc can save your life, same goes for psychotherapy but there are a plethora of “clinicians”
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@MentalSalty @dranniehickox who don’t know jack but will be happy to treat you anyway. MISDIAGNOSIS AND THE SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS LAZY MEDICINE FOR PROFIT AND THE DOCTOR KNOWS ALL HUBRIS IS THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM. It’s also why good docs are few and far between.
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