tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post9177007789833577662..comments2024-03-27T10:50:53.692-05:00Comments on Real Psychiatry: Collegial ConversationsGeorge Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-33043773097139907642014-04-17T04:51:25.471-05:002014-04-17T04:51:25.471-05:00I mentioned Dr. Pho's site because I see a col...I mentioned Dr. Pho's site because I see a collegiate environment, albeit largely a morose one, there. I wasn't thinking of a psychiatrist-patient alliance in particular, only that there is strength in numbers. Unless physicians stick together, and with patients, I don't see any battle being won.<br /><br />Regarding the featured comment, not ever having been a patient of a psychiatrist nor ever intending to be one (who does), I can only say I see both sides. There are many individual practitioners in your field that I wouldn't cast my lot in with, yet I have seen some of the effects of PCPs when they delve into mental health treatment (again, not in my own life because I refuse to let them practice it on me) and they were less than beneficial. So, where else to go but try to find a decent psychiatrist when you need one.<br /><br />For me, I'll support physicians as a whole, while hoping that some of that translates into support for those individuals providing good care or trying to clean up their own professions or both, before I would concentrate on any one profession. All of healthcare being destroyed is my big picture issue right now, because I know the nature of business, and of government, and they will destroy it if left unchecked.<br /><br />"...but it illustrates why physicians are politically weak."<br /><br />Please explain. I see the pediatrician as an anomaly with most physicians wanting change, so I don't see where this explains why they are politically weak. Thanks!<br /><br />Not a Doctornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-44534532440570039322014-04-16T23:50:16.213-05:002014-04-16T23:50:16.213-05:00Looks like a rather mixed result but it illustrate...Looks like a rather mixed result but it illustrates why physicians are politically weak. Needless to say I agree with the Internist rather than the Pediatrician. But the dynamic is not driving costs up and blaming doctors. It is cartel formation while using cost effectiveness rhetoric to claim "efficiency" such as not paying physicians, working physicians to death, or restricting access to physicians. The featured comment was interesting but I doubt that there are many people who would want to be in a patient-psychiatrist alliance when psychiatrists are the most frequently attacked specialists in the media. George Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-28772274824112476862014-04-16T22:30:58.943-05:002014-04-16T22:30:58.943-05:00You're not alone. Not by a long shot.
http://...You're not alone. Not by a long shot.<br /><br />http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/04/hear-miserable-doctors.html<br /><br />Please be sure to read the Featured Comment on this post. Says it all.<br />Not a Doctornoreply@blogger.com