They don't offer inpatient usually unless your health is in danger. I had lost a huge amount of weight & pdoc didn't notice it until mynah said something to him about it. I was at a dangerously low weight & even though I had no insurance to cover it....he got some grant money to cover the stay he forced me into at an ED treatment facility. It didn't do any good because in reality at the time I wanted to die. Go figure..it was right before thanksgiving around 1996.

The second time I was dealing with bad anorexia, my MD was the one initially caring for me because I was dealing with my mother who was dying of cancer & refused to go into the psych hospital for treatment with my pdoc. MD & pdoc did talk to each other about my care though....ended up in the medical hospital over Christmas then again the night my mom died. In a way that was good because I got support I wouldn't have had at home in my bad marriage.

Pdocs react according to how serious they perceive the problem to be. Last time my pdoc left it up to my MD to monitor.