I've been lucky, I've had 4 pdocs and 3 were good.

My first pdoc was a complete disaster - she basically wrote me a script with 12 repeats on it and then proceeded to disappear for a year, couldn't get a hold of her to get an appointment. Turns out she was sick but wouldn't admit it and get someone to cover her patients, so she just left us all hanging.

pdoc 2 was wonderful - I loved her she actually did talk therapy as well as meds management.

pdoc 3 was great - she was my IP pdoc when I was last IP, very approachable and friendly and very practical.

pdoc 4 is my current pdoc. I'm slowly warming up to him. He's strictly meds management, so I only see him for 20 min appointments, but the 20 min. are always useful as he's really focussed on practical coping skills. Plus he's the most thorugh of all my pdocs in terms of monitoring my blood work, liver function, and heart, which I find reassuring. Only downside with him is he has all the therapeutic warmth of a dead fish.

--splitimage