Your case is ridiculous. I support that doctors as incompetent of yours get reported to licensing authorities.

I imagine most psychiatrists know Abilify causes weight gain and antipsychotics in general can cause diabetes/metabolic changes. Mine would not even prescribe Abilify to help me sleep because of weight gain problems he's seen in patients. He insists on Ambien instead (not that Ambien is great).

I hear you, as I've had similar experiences. I have brought research to medical doctors and many are clueless about things that are easily substantiated. I've had some luck with a few doctors who appreciate my articles, and I am always grateful when that is the case.

There is so much knowledge out there, too much for any one doctor to keep up on, but it does take a motivation for a psychiatrist to learn it and apply it all. Even though they learn stuff in medical school, it may consist of memorizing information rather than learning wisdom or applying it.

Many health services are just primitive-listen to your symptoms and write one of several scripts, but never determine the cause or try to solve the problem. Being brushed off is common. It seems standard to not diagnose until permanent damage has set in. It's easier to diagnose when something has become completely nonfunctional, for example, your kidneys breaking down or an infection that has spread requiring amputation.

I think a good bit of this is medical training. They seem to be trained to look at patients as morons and patient data as insignificant. There are some good ones out there, but they are really, really hard to find.

Another component is egos. Many doctors are just incapable of 'seeing' you as an individual. It's related to narcissism (taking risk in using that label) where the person views you of an extension of them rather than separate. They are inwardly focused, so they can't 'see' you. The worst, for me, is the gaslighting--when they deny that things that exist and distort reality. This has happened to me several times. (It's also a trauma trigger for me so I am greatly affected.)

In my experience, most of the worst ones come from 'prestigous' institutions. Sometimes I think they think they are good merely for having a job there, and that just having an appointment with you is presumed a good enough outcome (as opposed to the actual outcome) and are really clueless about how much incompetence some of them have. I agree in finding and having a good doctor being the struggle, but I think it's more than half the struggle.

Well I'm just ranting here as this has caused problems for me, but also because I can't believe that hardly anything changes over the years.

I write posts about the medical industry in attempts to deal with it as I can't find much support for these issues anywhere from anyone.

https://forums.psychcentral.com/psyc...dangerous.html

https://forums.psychcentral.com/othe...l-records.html