JP>  Which means going to a competent board licensed psych and following the 
pr
JP> procedures. Anyone who goes to a GP for a medication of this caliber 
needs 
JP> be locked up for child abuse.  
ZS> 
ZS> you'd be surprised at how common this is.
ZS> 
ZS> for example, i don't think psychaiatrists are perscribing all the forty 
ZS> thousand gallons of liquid mint-flavored prozac each year.
HMOs are unwilling to pay for the referrals needed for their customers to get 
competent care, and the pressure is on GPs to mill patients through as fast 
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possible; in a lot of cases, that amounts to them writing a scrip and saying 
"let's try this and see if it works".
I've had too many experiences in recent years with suggesting the 
possibility of an illness to a doctor, only to have them write me a 
prescription without doing ANY diagnostic work.
Scary.
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