Saturday, July 16, 2011
Is this acceptable behavior from a mental health professional?
I have decided, after a lot of thought, to get breast augmentation surgery. My reasons are personal. and I do not feel I should have to justify them to anyone. I have been getting a good bit of negative feedback about my decision, but I know it's what's right for me, and I could not be happier. Anyway, I am currently taking a medicine(suboxone for heroin addiction). I have been clean for 6 and a half years, and am pretty close to coming off of this medicine. I get suboxone from my psychiatrist, and my plastic surgeon, not really knowing anything about the drug, wanted me to have my psychiatrist call him so that they could discuss my pain management for after the surgery. Well, I tried calling and faxing my shrink to ask him to call my surgeon, to no avail. So yesterday, I went to his office to be sure that I got to talk to him. He told me some B.S. about how he called the surgeon's office and talked to someone and left a message. I think that was a lie. Then, he told me that he does not know how suboxone will interact with the post surgery pain meds. and that he cannot be of any assistance. I was really taken aback by the fact that he prescribes this drug, but does not know how it will interact with other opiates. Then, he questioned me even having the surgery, told me I should do something else with the money(our tax refund), and tried to make me feel bad by saying I should spend the money on my kids. My kids are not in need or want of anything. They have a lot. I just couldn't believe that my psychiatrist, who is supposed to be objective and non judgemental. was standing there talking to me like he was my unsupportive father. He told me I don't need the surgery, and that I'm beautiful. I'm sorry, but you can't tell me I don't need it when you haven't even seen my bare breasts. I think he just doesn't want to have to deal with it, and does not want to be held responsible for actually knowing about a narcotic that he is allowed to prescribe. I was thinking about filing some kind of complaint and letting who ever is in charge of this sort of thing know that this doctor is giving this stuff out while not even knowing how to handle this kind of situation. What if I had to have an appendectomy, or other necessary surgery? At the very least I am not seeing him anymore. Am I right to be angry about this?
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