There was a PD conference not too long ago that separated the medical from the patients. There is a flurry of posts on our PD forum in the past about excluding patients from the research etc. I didn't know that this conference is going to divided too!

I get to go the medical ones, and you are right in some ways, --j-- you don't want to hear what some doctors say....sheessh..

One of the most memorable was a Lilly talk, by shrinks for other doctors, etc, when Prozac was newly out. One comment got the biggest laugh...
This was a time when Lilly wanted general physicians to give Prozac out.

A shrink was extolling how wonderful Prozac was compared to TCAs... on and on... Prozac was the first, you know. It was a blockbuster for Lilly, in fact!

Then he cavalierly said..." so when you are confronted by a patient giving the standard "organ recital" don't hesitate to give that patient Prozac". Many many laughed, and I did not. So THIS is how doctors think of us when we sincerely express our discomforts? "Organ recital" ??? I found that degrading.