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In reply to the discussion: A proposal for dealing with the potentially dangerous mentally ill [View all]kickysnana
(3,908 posts)Having barely escaped a Psychiatrist that preyed on single mothers and was eventually taken to court and disbarred her initial evaluation of me is still somewhere in my medical records but not what happened to her.
Recently after complaining about the off the charts behavior of a new neurologist after mine moved out of state at one of the largest medical groups here, the department head took it upon himself after a fifteen minute appointment to say I did not actually have a disease I had tried my darndest not to be confirmed 20 years before, by three separate in depth studies. He did no additional tests, just gave his "opinion" (hoping to ward off a law suit? I actually don't know.)
If you go to three practitioners you may get three diagnosis and that is probably only opinion. There is really no follow-up to see if people are taking their medicine, getting better, worse or dying for that matter. If we had Dr Welby instead of Scrubs perhaps we could do this.
So if you get on this list how do you get off? Does taking a medication make you ineligible, to do what? Then all people taking any mood altering medication should be on total disability or what? Do we stop them from traveling? Shopping alone? Being with vulnerable people at all?
Where do we get the money for the additional paperwork, judicial and medical, and legal?
We do need to talk about it but there is no easy answer as our medical and legal system is not up for this at all.