Posted by Porky on June 21, 2006, at 12:22:22
In reply to Are Family Doctors prescribing EMSAM?, posted by jealibeanz on May 24, 2006, at 6:33:46
> Has anyone been prescribed or told of EMSAM from a general practitioner? I know a lot of people on here see pdocs. I'd like to give it a try, but only see my GP.
Yes, my family doctor prescribed EMSAM for me. I doubt she would have even considered it but for the fact that she recognizes that I'm someone who is pretty well educated on Psychiatric drugs and such. When I came into her office that day to ask for the prescription, she had never even heard of the drug. She also has never prescribed an MAOI before. She is only in her early-to-mid 30s I think so MAOIs were not popularly used after she got out of med school, according to her.
I also brought along a printout of the full prescribing information for EMSAM which I obtained from the BMS website for her perusal.
If it weren't for the fact that I was educated on the matter and the fact that I brought the prescribing information, I highly doubt she would have prescribed it. But yes, at least in my case, Family Doctors DO prescribe EMSAM.
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