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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 59299" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Just a quick clarification - in Australia, when your kid has ADHD or similar, the medications can be prescribed by a pediatrician or psychiatrist, both of whom have to specialise in treating it and both of whom have to re registered to prescribe that medication for that child.</p><p></p><p>Because we just don't have enough specialists who 'specialise' in treating ADHD, autism etc especially in children, we have a lot of pediatricians who have taken this on. And because of the lack of psychiatrists who are prepared to handle this unless the patient first goes to them as an adult, then the pediatrician will continue to be that patient's primary specialist and medication-provider indefinitely.</p><p></p><p>It's weird, but it's how it works for us. Even THIS bloke, I had to search Sydney for 18 months. I knew of HIM but was looking for someone else first, because our bloke already had a reputation for prescribing these medications to anybody - something which I now know to be not true. It's just that he gets loaded with ADHD/autistic patients in his practice, because there is a general lack of specialists who will take these kids on. And in our case, he was the only one prepared to manage all three kids, indefinitely. We're lucky he's also close by.</p><p></p><p>A lovely man - but today easy child 2/difficult child 2 asked him if he has to take "Marg medications" before our family's appointment, to help him cope with a roomful of us.</p><p>He also liked our description of the slow-release dex for easy child 2/difficult child 2 as her "anti-blonde pills".</p><p></p><p>I'd better head for bed - have to process our family medical claims in the morning (for today's appointment) and at the same time, talk easy child 2/difficult child 2 & difficult child 1 through processing their own claims. And also talk difficult child 1 through getting his own Medicare number (like Social Security, for us, only health-care linked). Oh joy, oh rapture...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 59299, member: 1991"] Just a quick clarification - in Australia, when your kid has ADHD or similar, the medications can be prescribed by a pediatrician or psychiatrist, both of whom have to specialise in treating it and both of whom have to re registered to prescribe that medication for that child. Because we just don't have enough specialists who 'specialise' in treating ADHD, autism etc especially in children, we have a lot of pediatricians who have taken this on. And because of the lack of psychiatrists who are prepared to handle this unless the patient first goes to them as an adult, then the pediatrician will continue to be that patient's primary specialist and medication-provider indefinitely. It's weird, but it's how it works for us. Even THIS bloke, I had to search Sydney for 18 months. I knew of HIM but was looking for someone else first, because our bloke already had a reputation for prescribing these medications to anybody - something which I now know to be not true. It's just that he gets loaded with ADHD/autistic patients in his practice, because there is a general lack of specialists who will take these kids on. And in our case, he was the only one prepared to manage all three kids, indefinitely. We're lucky he's also close by. A lovely man - but today easy child 2/difficult child 2 asked him if he has to take "Marg medications" before our family's appointment, to help him cope with a roomful of us. He also liked our description of the slow-release dex for easy child 2/difficult child 2 as her "anti-blonde pills". I'd better head for bed - have to process our family medical claims in the morning (for today's appointment) and at the same time, talk easy child 2/difficult child 2 & difficult child 1 through processing their own claims. And also talk difficult child 1 through getting his own Medicare number (like Social Security, for us, only health-care linked). Oh joy, oh rapture... Marg [/QUOTE]
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