I want to talk briefly about why I am transitioning away from my new psychiatrist.


1. His office is located in an Executive Suite Complex and what that means is that these offices are temporary. The company or person pays weekly for the office space and never signs a contract, so the nature of the Executive Suites are temporary rooms. Every time I meet with him, he's located in a different room with a completely different view out the window and a different set up to his office. So, I never know what to expect when I go there.

2. I do see his assistant in the same room each time as it's full of filing cabinets. But I found he double books his patients. Often times when I arrive, there are alot of patients crammed in one small room waiting to see him and when I come out his assistant wants to go over some things with me which I feel violated HIPPA, as there are many patients in the same room with me. She also leaves her computer unattended when she escorts me to his room or out of the building.


3. He mentioned to me that he recently opened his practice here and was in another state last year. Not sure why he shared this with me, but coupled with the temporary nature of his office space and he recently moved here, gave me a feeling of dis-ease about longevity with this doctor. He's been in practice for 40 years, yet when I looked up his license it only showed for my state, even though I did a general search in all states and only a recent record of his license.

4. He makes multiple mistakes with my prescriptions, he electronically writes in the prescription to my pharmacy and yet when I get there, I have to correct his mistakes. Last time he wrote 3 pills of a controlled substance, which I have been on for years and I had to text his assistant and wait for her to respond to correct that mistake. So, I now call ahead to go over the prescription before I get to the pharmacy.


5. He does present himself well, he is always dressed in a suit and tie, and he is smart about medication and offers helpful advice. In comparison, my former psych doc I saw for 30 years he always had the same office with the same furnishings and wall hangings.


6. My former insurance company required a large co-payment which I could not afford as he wanted to see me weekly until he "felt comfortable with me". Well, I am going on 4 months seeing him weekly and I'm still stuck on weekly with him. He offered not to charge me for the office co-pays at the time of visit, but would let me accumulate the bill and once he felt I was an established patient, he would start to back-bill me. I told him many times that I don't want to accumulate a bill. I keep asking for a bill so I could start paying but his assistant refuses to give me a bill. I'm not sure what is up with that.

Am I being too picky? I'm just used to my former psych doc of 30 years and adjusting to the new psych doc's ways and that weird therapist is overwhelming me.

Thanks again for listening.

Birdie