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Is this a bad, bad psychiatrist? Or should I just take the drugs and run?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 243896" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Any doctor who thinks he can diagnose a child after five minutes is in my opinion a big quack. If you are on Medicaid, like me, you can get a neuropsychologist evaluation at most university hospitals--they all take Medicaid and you get treated as well as somebody with insurance. The evaluations are well worth it. If you don't go to the right kind of diagnostician (which I learned the hard way), your child WILL end up misdiagnosed and/or overmedicated for something the prescribing doctor isn't even sure he has. ADHD has many mimickers and your child should be tested competely. I really hope you can find a way to resolve this. It really rankles me that so many psychiatrists are incompetent. As for pediatricians--they don't have the training to even begin to diagnose. The problem with plain Psychiatrists is that many don't update their training and they look for psychiatric disorders and often miss things like high functioning autism, which looks a lot like ADHD.... Don't get fixated on "it's ADHD" or some doctor will agree with you, whether it's true or not, and he won't look beyond that. Can you share some of his upsetting behaviors with us and tell us about his early development and social skills with his peers? I wish you good luck whichever path you choose to or HAVE to take. (((Hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 243896, member: 1550"] Any doctor who thinks he can diagnose a child after five minutes is in my opinion a big quack. If you are on Medicaid, like me, you can get a neuropsychologist evaluation at most university hospitals--they all take Medicaid and you get treated as well as somebody with insurance. The evaluations are well worth it. If you don't go to the right kind of diagnostician (which I learned the hard way), your child WILL end up misdiagnosed and/or overmedicated for something the prescribing doctor isn't even sure he has. ADHD has many mimickers and your child should be tested competely. I really hope you can find a way to resolve this. It really rankles me that so many psychiatrists are incompetent. As for pediatricians--they don't have the training to even begin to diagnose. The problem with plain Psychiatrists is that many don't update their training and they look for psychiatric disorders and often miss things like high functioning autism, which looks a lot like ADHD.... Don't get fixated on "it's ADHD" or some doctor will agree with you, whether it's true or not, and he won't look beyond that. Can you share some of his upsetting behaviors with us and tell us about his early development and social skills with his peers? I wish you good luck whichever path you choose to or HAVE to take. (((Hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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