Comments: Internet Psychiatrist, Now Convicted Felon, Defends Anti-Depressants Without Exam
What's more, the Hageseth case also makes me wonder about the propriety of doctors who take anti-depressants prescribing anti-depressants to patients.
It's a sort of conflict of interest, isn't it. I mean people by nature want to justify what they do themselves and the easiest way to do that is to convince others it's the best thing too.
Posted by Gianna at April 27, 2009 12:49 PM
It's kind of like someone who is legally drunk administering field sobriety tests. Someone mentally altered by these drugs can't judge normal as we see all of the time.
Posted by Sally at April 27, 2009 01:16 PM
Peace be with you
I don't think most psychiatrists would have any problem doing what Hageseth did. I recently met a man here who while trying to defend himself in court was sent to a psychiatrist to be checked out to see if he was mentally fit to represent himself. In the first paragraph of the psychiatrists report to the court the psychiatrist says that the defendant refused to talk with him, but on the last page the psychiatrist made half a dozen diagnoses from that silence. I believe psychiatrists will take any answer on the questionnaires to mean the questioned needs to be doped.
Hageseth should get life without possibility of parole, and so should any other psychiatrist who kills a patient with those drugs. If one could be held responsible for firing a gun willy nilly into a crowd and killing someone, then why shouldn't a psychiatrist who dopes a crowd willy nilly. In both cases they should of been well aware of the dangers.
love eternal
tad
Posted by tad at April 27, 2009 07:34 PM
He should get a medal.
Posted by yoyo at April 27, 2009 07:50 PM
Regarding doctors who themselves take SSRI's: she wasn't my prescribing doc, but the therapist who I worked with in my last phase of med withdrawal, and who sat through many a diatribe about the poor treatment that had me on up to 5 psych meds at a time over nearly a decade, herself took antidepressants. She was also the only care provider I ever had who billed my visits under something other (and much less stigmatizing) than my original (incorrect) bipolar diagnosis. In a sense, she undiagnosed me, without my having to ask. She fully supported my successful drug withdrawal and recovery. So, like most such generalizations, there are exceptions.
Posted by Tilting at Windmills at April 29, 2009 01:24 PM