finding a new pdoc

The time has finally come for me to give up my pdoc of 9 years. I am moving to the other side of the state, and I need someone local, who I don't have to drive 250 miles to see when I'm in crisis (and who has admitting privileges at local hospitals).

I have no earthly idea how to go about this. My pdoc himself suggested the AMA website, but they give you almost no information. I wouldn't know what to do to find other people in the area who have been in need of a pdoc! That just feels like a horrible invasion of privacy, if I could even go about it that way.

Anybody got ideas?? I got the one I have when I was a student and he was the consulting psychiatrist at my school counseling center....so I've never had to really look for one on my own.



Candy

Your p-doc can't give you a referral or ask his p-doc friends for a referral to someone over your side of the state?

He was born and raised in the town I used to live in, and went to med school 90 miles down the road, then came back to do his residency -- he doesn't know anybody on the side I'm going to! (I did ask.)

Contact your local and or nearest NAMI branch they will be able to help you to find out where the nearest one to you is

http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?sec...our_local_NAMI