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02-26-2009, 08:40 AM
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(Topix) Legislation currently making its way through the Missouri General Assembly could allow psychologists with additional training to prescribe certain medications to their patients.
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02-27-2009, 10:53 AM
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I find this distressing as it is my belief that too many things already being treating as "psychiatric" or "psychological" are in fact a medical problem. Already, psychiatrists run too few tests to diagnose and to monitor effects of medications on the body.
What is the likelihood that PSYCHOLOGISTS - with NO medical background (and often with psychological problems of their own) - will order tests to even monitor the medical health of the patients taking these drugs? |
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02-27-2009, 01:36 PM
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I find it distressing too.
Medical doctors can't even monitor and prescribe safely these days..how is a psychologist to do it? Hyponatremia, platelet effects, drug interactions, induced blood sugar changes, serotonin syndrome, osteoporosis, etc etc?
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02-27-2009, 09:21 PM
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Jasper,
I think you may need to educate yourself in the roles of both the psychiatrist and psychologist. Also, I would like to know where u get your information: "PSYCHOLOGISTS OFTEN HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THEIR OWN".???? I could go further, but I am restraining myself. Quote:
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