I asked my therapist to address the death or incapacitation issue a few years ago when the prescriber I was seeing suddenly died and I was getting these super alarming letters from their office notifying me of their death and the need to get a new prescriber asap. I was not that attached to the one who died, and in fact did not like her very much, but the way her death was handled was extremely upsetting.

At that time, my therapist said she had no plans in place, but had talked to her colleagues and they all thought it was a good idea. Honestly, do we have to do everything? I would think this is something every MH professsional should figure out, same as billing practices.

Anyway, I have no idea if she ever did put things into place.