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Old Mar 25, 2006, 10:30 PM
Anonymous29319
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When a DHS caseworker here tried to fix it so that I had to see a psychiatrist for medication instead of my family physician I found out that She could not have me court mandated to do that because physicians and psychiatrists take the same classes in medical school for the prescribing of medications. Any court in the United States considers both psychiatrists and family physicians equally capable of prescribing the full range of medication needs be it medical and psychotropic medication. If family physicians were not capable of prescribing the full range of medication needs they would not have their medical license to practice as a physician in the United States. So The caseworker had no choice but to accept my family physician was prescribing my medication needs or lack of, which ever be the case. So maybe while waiting to get in to a psychiatrist your family physician otherwise known as primary physician will take over your medication needs.