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Old Mar 03, 2014, 10:50 AM
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That sounds like poor care to have such a short initial meeting. Initial assessments usually between 45-90 minutes. They need to take a history and get to know a little bit about your life and who you are, along with the symptoms, to give a good diagnosis. I don't know if you have BP 2 or not, but it sounds like neither does the pdoc if she was that quick. Samples are concerning, but they aren't always bad. My pdoc keeps lots of different samples to hand out to patients who don't have insurance and can't afford their meds. When I first started with her she wanted to try abilify because she was involved in some research on it. So we tried that, but it gave me akithisia so we stopped and changed to another med that she wasn't researching (lamictal). I don't know if abilify would have been her first choice, but I was a student then, so free meds were good. But I agree with the others that a 5 minute assessment and an Rx to a med she has advertisements all over the office for is concerning.
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