Thursday. Mental Health Day in clinic. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Mainly because I'm gonna need some moral support to get through the day.

I'll check in between patients.

Have a good day, Loungers.

I love you all.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Hope your day goes well, my dear Aristus...

Here's some moral support for you!

How do you cope?

[Aristus]

2. It helps to have nice patients.

And DU friends...

[DebJ]

3. Something you say or do today may save someone's life albeit

you might never know that. So thank you !

My adult son has bipolar. So I have an idea what you face.

[Aristus]

4. Thank you.

Looks like I'm going to be snowed under this morning. 11 patients on the schedule, and counting. Just for the morning...

[rug]

6. How much time does each patient get?

[Aristus]

7. Depends on the patient.

I spend as much time with each patient as the case requires. I don't let the clock practice medicine for me. But on days like today, I try to focus on the case, and keep the chit-chat to a minimum. Got another patient. Gotta go!

[Aristus]

8. Whew! Busy morning!

Finally. A chance to breath...

I guess the hidden poster was unaware of my ability to manage my time effectively. Unaware of a lot of things, actually. Like, one: I'm not a doctor.

Just like I told kids back in junior high school: if you knew me, you wouldn't have said that...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. ...

[elleng]

10. Glad I didn't see it.

[Aristus]

11. I put him on ignore.

Life's too short; know what I mean?

[elleng]

13. I sure do.

[steve2470]

12. what's the latest antidepressant ? nt

[Aristus]

14. I'm not really keeping up on them.

Mental health pharmaceuticals are a little out of my scope of practice.

[steve2470]

15. if someone asks you about their meds, what do you do ?

I know docs/MD's are very prickly about their turf.

[Aristus]

16. Well, I know quite a bit about the more common mental health meds already in clinical practice.

I answer their questions, and make sure there are no significant interactions with any other of their current meds. There are certain mental health medications I feel comfortable prescribing, like SSRI's; or TCA's, which have a medical indication as well as a mental health indication. And others, like anti-psychotics, that I prefer to leave to mental health providers for prescribing.

[steve2470]

17. sounds cool, ty nt