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HuskiesHowls

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8. Trust in a doctor is most important
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:02 PM
Feb 2012

When my daughter was a minor, and I had a say in what therapist she saw, I interviewed them. Even when she was handed off to a different therapist at the same practice, I went with her to her first appt, to find out what they were like. If I didn't trust them, she didn't see them again.

Later on, after she turned 21, she had a problem similar to yours. The difference was, she wound up in the psych ward of a local hospital. After she got out, her mother and I both did some research, found out who was the top person at the office, and had personal meetings with that person, explaining (calmly) the lousy service my daughter had gotten. The end result: two months later, that doctor was gone.

If you and your daughter trust your GP, and that person is equipped (either personally or through good referrals) to handle the situation, it would seem to be a good solution to lousy service by a specialist.

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