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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote
It is also scary here in the U.S., as Laurie has pointed out.
our mental health care system is in trouble. So are primary care practices.
My pdoc just retired and for months, it looked like I was going to have no pdoc at all! I would be in trouble without a pdoc. Same goes with my primary care doc; he is retiring and they've been having difficulties finding a replacement.
Pdocs and primary care docs are frustrated with the conditions under which they must work, even at a university (teaching) hospital/health care center.
It's all so damned frustrating! 
HUGS Fuzzy! 
WC |
Ugh. I hope a replacement for your primary care doc happens soon. My primary care doctor is a nice woman, but...meh...not the greatest doctor. Especially when it comes to psych meds! She basically refuses to deal with psych stuff at all, except in a true emergency. Even then, she's "loudly" reluctant.
My pdoc went out on a "sudden medical leave" last week. I have an appointment scheduled for September 3rd, but I'm very stressed from worrying about her leaving. The last 3 pdocs I've had in my town all left with absolutely no warning or closure. I think that is professionally terribly irresponsible, but that's what they do. Tough luck for the patients. Finding another pdoc anywhere near where I live would be unlikely.