Deux ex machina.

[xkateinjapanx]

Update on the piss poor evaluation situation.

When I got home from that awful session, I called my friend Rachel and told her about it.  She got very pissed and insisted that I talk to her mother, who is a psychiatrist.  She called her up and told her about it, and she called me back and said to call her tomorrow and discuss everything.

I never

Comments

[xianghua]

I'm really glad you're getting some help on this-

***BUT****

This is really, really unprofessional behavior on the part of this other psychiatrist. I would be a little concerned- if she's thsi unprofessional about her conduct regarding colleagues, how does she handle her clients?!

[xianghua]

'screwing with her' and 'revenge mode' are definately not professional behavior. Period.

[xianghua]

I don't know. It's certainly possible. But it doesn't ssound like it to me.

[lastres0rt]

Part of being a 'good' psychiatrist is to make the patient feel better about their situation, I'd say.

The language certainly isn't professional, but then again, she's not talking to her professional colleagues - she's talking TO the dissatisfied patient, with intentions of continuing a relationship with this new patient. She is probably looking to make the patient feel better about the situation and also attempting to reassure her that Psych #1 is a gross anomaly. In this situation, telling the patient about the "revenge" she will wreak on Psych #1 is not so much poor behavior as it is an upsell to further convince the patient that she is on her side, making her a 'better' patient because now the patient will hopefully be more open with her as a result.

It's too soon to tell either way, but certainly it's a sign of finding a good motivational psych.

[xkateinjapanx]

She is VERY professional, she was using those laymen terms because A) Her daughter is one of my best friends and she knows me on a personal level and B) She has a huge pet peeve against this sort of thing, psychiatrists not treating patients with respect.