I agree W.C. I had a PCP who told me I couldn't keep getting an opiate pain killer, unless I stopped taking a benzo that a pdoc prescribed. He said he would give me a week to get off the benzo. That shows some real underappreciation of the potential for withdrawal symptoms when getting off a benzo. My pdoc knew better.

On another occasion, I was complaining of weird anxiety at night. A PCP referred me to a sleep study clinic. It was a pdoc who figured out this "mental" symptom was totally due to anemia. That gave me new respect for pdocs. I say pick as many brains as you can. The most helpful psych med I've ever taken was prescribed by a PCP. A dozen other drugs prescribed by pdocs were useless. I think pdocs have gotten way too in to polypharmacy, putting people on elaborate cocktails to where it becomes indiscernible what drug is doing what.