Thanks BPcyclist. Most of the time at this hospital I get pretty good to great care. My psych dx follows me but it is a hospital that handles a lot of psych cases and my pdoc is a bulldog who will fight really hard for her patients. She's worked with me with several specialists for different things. I'm on an MAOI and have had surgery several times so there's been a lot of co-operation between surgery, anesthesia and psych to keep me safe. I've had some great anesthesiologists and surgeons who've been really respectful and cooperative with the MAOI and need for extra monitoring.

But.......this GI is apparently really bad. I don't think I'm even going to go back when I finish my elimination diet. I can start there with another dr and it will take the same amount of time to get in to another dr. as this one.

I did get my gallbladder out 2 years ago. I just meant you have to touch your patient to find out if there is pain sometimes (which you obviously know .

The worst thing that happened with mental health bias was actually a pdoc. I went into the regular hospital with a pretty good lithium toxicity and was in there 3 or 4 days. The general floors were full so I was stuck, ironically, on GI. They had no clue and admitted it freely. For some reason the intern cut most of my psych meds in half and took me off 4 mg of klonopin cold turkey. I couldn't sleep and knew I'd be withdrawing soon so when the pdoc came in I was thrilled because I knew he'd help. Not only did he not change my meds he walked out while I was still talking. I complained, he responded with a letter stating I had encephalopathy and was confused. I did not have encephalopathy and I was no confused. I was angry because he wouldn't listen and I knew what I was going to go through.

I'm scared that complaint will be similar and I'll just be accused of being confused or not knowing what was going on. But I think I have to complain.

Yikes, I've talked too much. This is just something I'm passionate about. I always thought I'd eventually change from OT to mental health advocacy or that I could do advocacy part time while on disability. It hasn't worked out but maybe someday.

What happened with the clozaril?