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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My husband was a victim of this 'drug therapy' for over two decades. Subsequent psychiatrists put him on a regimen of more and more serious drugs, each with more side-effects.
ReplyDeleteFinally, an internist who does implement a 'talk therapy' of his own, diagnosed a damaged thyroid from an accident when my husband was 18. A $4 a month drug has restored my husband's emotional balance. All because the doctor asked the right questions, instead of, "You've had a screwed up life. Here, take these drugs."