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Old Feb 01, 2018, 05:37 AM
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In re checking your insurers website:

If you can sort by zip code, you may find clusters of docs at the same address, meaning that they are (usually) associates within a group practice. (Continuing with ‘usually’...) Within a group you might find that 10 docs accept your insurance whilst 10 do not. The appointment folks might be able to suggest a good combination.

My therapist and pdoc are both under one association of psychiatric providers but the associates are spread out over five locations and not all associates accept my insurance.

My third shrink was my best. When he told me that he was leaving his practice for a research position I cried for hours. This was way back, long ago, when shrinks were therapists instead of script writers. I guess that it all changed during my eleven-year holiday. I was a lot shocked when I got out and found that PhD therapists = 50-minute appointments and MD shrinks = 15-minute script-writing appointments.

My therapist doesn’t pretend to know anything about psychmeds. Then I see my pdoc, in a different location, who knows nothing about my therapy sessions. No communications between the five different locations. The therapists have a kind of fear of contacting the pdocs. I have to ask my therapist what my up-to-date diagnoses might be and then pass the info to my pdoc.

Finding a new t/pdoc sucks. I have to find someone closer. Good luck on your search... I hope that you can find someone who gives a damn.
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