I finally heard from my psyc hospital that my pdoc is not returning to practice there. I kind of new that unofficially. So anyway they have a legal duty to refer me to someone else, and I got the call today. It was truely laughable. Referals include an LGBT counselling service (I'm straight) with a one year waiting list, that was outside my catchment area, the women's counselling referal service which only refers to counsellors not pdocs, a geared to income counselling service with a one year waiting list, that does not necessarily include podocs, and two people I believe are actually pdocs. I'm not sure about the first one, as his voice mail ended with "remember to breath". I've left messages with both of them, but am not getting my hopes up.

I have an appointment with my family Dr. next week to see if she's comfortable taking over prescribing my psych meds until I can find a pdoc, and to hopefully start the referal process to find one. I'm hoping she can refer me (Pretty much a necessity up in Canada to see anyone affiliated with a hospital, which is my prefferance) or I start cold calling pdoc's in private practice.

Hows this for my Intro, Hi my name is X, I'm looking for a psychiatrist who is knowledgeable about concurrent disorders, has experinece with self injury and PTSD, and can handle complex med's management." Like I'm a real winner of a potential client.

Annoyed and cranky.

--splitimage