Medical Runaround
I am so sick of the medical system in this country. I refuse to call it healthcare, since most of us are unhealthy and nobody seems to care.
Maegan’s doctor got her evaluation from the psychologist last week. Yesterday, around 6pm, his receptionist calls to tell me, “Dr G…. doesn’t monitor meds for ADHD. You’ll need to take her to a psychiatrist for that.”
Now, why couldn’t they have told me that weeks ago, when I first took her in to talk to Dr G…. about assessing her for ADHD. If they had told me then that he didn’t monitor ADHD meds, I would have scheduled an appointment with a psychiatrist in the first place. It would have saved us time, not to mention multiple trips to different dr’s offices. Now, I have to find a psychiatrist instead of the psychologist we started seeing, and start all over from there. I’m fairly certain the psychiatrist is going to want to do his or her own evaluation/tests and it’s going to be that much longer before Maegan is taking anything to help her.
People just have no idea how difficult it is living with someone who is constantly moving (and talking) and who has zero impulse control. If she thinks it, she’s going to say or do it only seconds after she’s thought it. In fact, most of the time I think she’s saying and doing stuff before she finishes thinking about it.
Well, that’s my rant for the day. I’m outta here.
ADHD, Drs, Psychiatrist, Psychologists, Medical System, Health Care
January 14th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I regards to medical runaround. I am having the same problem with soonercare and ADD meds. I am in BA. Dis you find a psych doc that takes soonercare and monitors ADD ADHD meds? If so please let me know of one. Especially if they were able to get soonercare to cover the meds.