Posted by secretme on May 16, 2006, at 14:06:43
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal, opinions, posted by Jaspar on May 16, 2006, at 13:38:55
Your point is well taken; however, the doctors I have come across at major teaching facilities (Sloan-K, Columbia Presbyterian, Wake Forest, Duke, and more)go only so far in their knowledge and treatment of conditions with herbal remedies. I think some PCPs and specialists may have taken a course or two in med school about alternative medicine and further supplement it with self-study. This, to me, is not enough, especially with pharmaceutical company reps banging down their doors everyday, peddaling some new concoction -- like Cymbalta. My meeting with the holistic doctor at Sloan put everything into perspective. I have worked in benefits for 15 years and spent enormous amounts of time helping my clients get resolution to their problems of receiving competent care. I made sure to offer the employer the best possible choices of medical plans without restrictions on what their employees can and cannot do. Unfortunately, the way companies (especially large ones and some local governments) insure their employees (via self-insured plans, off-shore companies, etc.), they are allowed to build in restrictions to benefits that smaller state-mandated plans cannot do. There is no protection for employees when a large employer decides who an employee can see and what the restrictions are in the benefits plan. Okay, I'm off the subject, but it's more the employers than the HMOs that are destroying our healthcare system. As our former healthcare carrier once said to me in a dispute over charges, "your husband's company tells us what to do." Without some form of national healthcare -- where mental and nervous are always considered MEDICAL conditions and treated as such, people who have problems with depression, OCD, ADD, etc., will never get proper treatment. This issue is far deeper than any of us knows, including me.
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