Prescription Meds from Psychologists?
 

(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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(From Topix Psychiatry)

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?

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?

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.