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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 81966"><p>I didn't watch the episode, but I wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be more awareness, education, support for families, better facilities, etc.</p><p></p><p>But what REALLY burns me up are the people criticizing the PARENTS for medicating their kids. Hello? The doctors are prescribing the medication, not the parents. Parents - lay people - count on the doctors and their training and expertise. Yes, there is a responsibility on the part of parents to educate themselves, but in the end it is the doctor with the training to make these decisions.</p><p></p><p>It's not easy to go against a doctor for a lot of people. I had to stand hard and firm with a pediatrician doctor who was insisting on an antibiotic injection for difficult child's strep throat over oral antibiotics (difficult child plus shot = meltdown). It went like this:</p><p></p><p>Dr: You're going to let a child make this decision?</p><p>Me: She's not. I am.</p><p>Dr: Well, you're the mother, but I'm the doctor.</p><p>(Here's where I put my foot down)</p><p>Me: You don't trump me.</p><p></p><p>Most people know a little something about strep throat. So, imagine how hard it is for parents to contradict a doctor about something most people know very little about: mental illness. In addition to THAT, child psychiatrists are in such short supply that parents are literally desperate and feel like they have no other alternatives. Some psychiatrists will refuse to treat a patient who questions them. I've had it happen to me.</p><p></p><p>Ohhh...don't even get me started. :nonono:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 81966"] I didn't watch the episode, but I wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be more awareness, education, support for families, better facilities, etc. But what REALLY burns me up are the people criticizing the PARENTS for medicating their kids. Hello? The doctors are prescribing the medication, not the parents. Parents - lay people - count on the doctors and their training and expertise. Yes, there is a responsibility on the part of parents to educate themselves, but in the end it is the doctor with the training to make these decisions. It's not easy to go against a doctor for a lot of people. I had to stand hard and firm with a pediatrician doctor who was insisting on an antibiotic injection for difficult child's strep throat over oral antibiotics (difficult child plus shot = meltdown). It went like this: Dr: You're going to let a child make this decision? Me: She's not. I am. Dr: Well, you're the mother, but I'm the doctor. (Here's where I put my foot down) Me: You don't trump me. Most people know a little something about strep throat. So, imagine how hard it is for parents to contradict a doctor about something most people know very little about: mental illness. In addition to THAT, child psychiatrists are in such short supply that parents are literally desperate and feel like they have no other alternatives. Some psychiatrists will refuse to treat a patient who questions them. I've had it happen to me. Ohhh...don't even get me started. [img]:nonono:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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