Re: Concerta vs Ritalin

[Anonymous]

Hi LindaLouWho,

It’s not the first time my doc has been this way. She didn’t used to be so difficult. And i didn’t used to be so prepared, although I do have trouble with getting what I want to say across in a very short time frame. My nurse friend in the USA says it’s hard to balance our needs to be a partner in our healthcare with our doctor’s egos.

When I saw her this past Tuesday, she hadn’t read the letter that my psychologist had sent her, at my request, suggesting that over the year and a half that I’d been seeing him, I had consistently displayed symptoms consistent with ADHD, that they behavioural work we were doing wasn’t helping completely, and that he encouraged me to ask her for a physician-supervised trial of meds. I was shocked when I asked the receptionist if they’d received the letter and she said “yes, i scanned it and it’s on her [[the doctor’s] computer. The receptionist knew what I wanted to come in to see the doctor about, so why wouldn’t the doctor have read the letter or known what I wanted to talk about? She didn’t even try to open it up on the computer before escorting me out of the exam room.

I’ll try to be more open-minded, unfortunately the doctor is in control of the med-giving, and the receptionist has a bit of an attitude problem, so I am trying to play nice, but it’s very, very frustrating, as you can imagine.

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