Posted by BabyBunny on June 24, 2007, at 13:54:48
In reply to Re: docs and depression, posted by ttee on June 24, 2007, at 13:40:32
That's sad. They're people too. But it just makes me doubt psychiatric drugs even more.
Why are they giving out this stuff like candy if it's so terrible? Makes one wonder...
> BTW, Dr. Kay Jamison is a renowned expert on bipolar as suffers from the illness. But she is NOT a practicing psychiatrist and has a Ph.D in Psychology. Most all state medical boards have rules of conduct for physicians and one of them is not to practice if you have mental illness. Just like if you are a pilot, you can not take ANY psychiatric meds (even Prozac) and still fly. This is an automatic FAA grounding. A doctor would need to stop practicing if he needed to take psychoactive drugs, or take them and not tell anyone. They don't want surgeons operating on people while on mind alterning drugs. If they went for psychiatric help in their local community, the risk is too great. Doctors don't get treatment for depression and this leads to an increased percentage of suicides.
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