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Originally Posted by bipolarbear21
Ok, so here goes:
It's beginning to feel like spring and for the last 3 springs, I've had major depression, sometimes with slightly psyhotic elements (just feeling like things aren't real all the time). I get hypomanic in each autumn, it's very cyclical for me.
I'm now starting to hate again my former psychiatrist, who put me on both Venlafaxine and Mirtazapine (SNRI) - he never saw my bipolar disorder, so he mis-medicated me. I guess that is a normal story for many of us?
BUT then he was really mean afterwards, like after 2 years of consulting him A LOT, I tell him someone else diagnosed me as bipolar (I don't know why he didn't see my hypomania, or thought it was weird I was always depressed in spring ). NOW HE HAS NOT EVEN APOLOGIZED AND HE ACTS LIKE HE DIAGNOSED ME AS BIPOLAR.
He won't apologize and just told me to: "come by his office if I needed help again"). (Ew, no thanks - the Mirtazapine and Venlafaxine put me in a mixed state etc.). He's so arrogant and won't come of his high horse, I want to complain about it to the medical system. But then, I heard that it might end up with them telling him: "It's okay to make a mistake" - doctors have the right to do that.
What do you do with your anger towards bad practitioners? I could also write about it on the internet and tag his name a lot..
I AM SOOOO ANGRY  , he could have killed me 3 times with his treatment and when I was first psychotically depressed he didn't give me medication.
Please, everyone. share your story.  |
I have had my share of awful p-docs and the first one let a suicide attempt (nearly lethal) happen. I am still in the midst of posting about it, but I can tell you my plan:
- a Yelp review - done
- reviews on Vitals.com and similar sites - work-in-progress
- a site (I do not blog - if you do blog, do both a site and a blog post)
The point is to make your content appear to people's searches for his name, as a public service.
Medical Board would not be moved by your account - it is too mild for them. Put your energy into web content creation. Be specific - list facts - what he put you on and when, what he dx'd you with and what your symptoms in reality were. BEFORE you start posting, request your medical record from him. He is not obligated to produce it for you (unlike non-p docs who have to), but he might. You can de-confidentialize (and abridge, if necessary) your record and post it on your site or attach it to your blog.
After all of that is done, you can send him a message with the links and a comment that you hope that your feedback will prove useful for his future patients. At least it will annoy him. There is a shortage of p-docs in this country, so most of them have full practices no matter how crappy they are, and I do not expect yours to be scared, but he will be annoyed. Unfortunately, that is the most you can get. No, I am wrong - I sometimes get messages from Yelp from other patients who quit his practice or from those who decided not to enter it based on my review. So that is a little gratifying.