I'm sorry to hear about people's negative experiences with pdocs not practicing therapy and just being relegated to doing 15 minute med checks. Definitely not all are like that though and there are some real pdocs out there. I'm in Australia and I've been with my pdoc for over 5 years now, he does therapy primarily (right now we're doing a lot of psychodynamic and object relations work, but he utilises a mix of modalities including CBT, IPT, ACT, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Mindfulness) but he also takes care of my medication if and when I need it. So I don't have to have a separate T for my Therapy and a Pdoc for my medication I can just see him and have it all combined in one. It's awesome, I hope more Pdocs will start to do more therapy, or return to doing therapy like they used to because it definitely seems to be something a lot of patients want. I do think more Pdocs in Australia do therapy as well as med management though, which is probably different to the US because our healthcare system is different.