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Posted by JohnL on August 25, 1999, at 4:36:49
Dr Bob, I realize the time constraints of physicians and understand this isn't likely to happen. But I am hopeful and wanted to ask...
Is there some way to get physicians involved in on-line discussions of pharmacology? I'm sure all of us would love to see a realtime forum of docs similar to your Tips section. Perhaps a separate psychobabble just for docs where the rest of us can be spectators? Or maybe send out some email requests to all your associates to join in the current psychobabble? Though everyone here is highly informed and experienced, it would be quite interesting to see the docs in action discussing their issues on pharmacology.
Thank you! JohnL
Posted by dj on August 26, 1999, at 0:17:24
In reply to More docs Dr Bob, posted by JohnL on August 25, 1999, at 4:36:49
JohnL is as usual full of great ideas. Taking this one a bit further how about some informed discussion of alternatives to psychopharmaceuticals by credible alternative practitioners in conversation with some docs -- ensuring that all keep the jargon to a minimum and the info. to a maximum.
Perhaps you, Dr. Koop, Dr. Weil, Dr. Goldberg, Dr. Michael Murray (NT) and some other on-line (and off-line) docs. could engage in some on-line dialogue where you discuss the up and downsides of various psychopharms , SAMe, acupuncture, amino acids formulations, etc. in PLAIN english
While checking out some sites on-line I came across the following postings which explain a slow approach to Prozac build-up and the
chemical activity of SSRIs in a very elegant and understandalbe manner:http://www.fairlite.com/ocd/articles/liq_proz.shtml
& other articles..
http://www.fairlite.com/ocd/articles/serindex.shtml
More of this quality of informative, well written, exploratory prose would be deeply appreciated by myself and doubtlesss legions of others here!!
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> Is there some way to get physicians involved in on-line discussions of pharmacology?..
Posted by Dr. Bob on August 27, 1999, at 1:56:44
In reply to More docs Dr Bob, posted by JohnL on August 25, 1999, at 4:36:49
> Dr Bob, I realize the time constraints of physicians and understand this isn't likely to happen. But I am hopeful and wanted to ask...
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> Is there some way to get physicians involved in on-line discussions of pharmacology?I assume you mean public discussions. I wish! Time constraints is one issue. I think the other big one is fear of legal problems.
> Or maybe send out some email requests to all your associates to join in the current psychobabble?
I've tried this. If any of you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.
Hmm, there are a couple related possibilities everyone might not know about:
1. Chat rooms sometimes have guest professionals available to respond to questions. I've done this myself at Concerned Counseling, see:
http://www.concernedcounseling.com/whatsnew.htm
and WebMD, see:
http://my.webmd.com/calendar
2. Our departmental "Grand Rounds" visiting lecture series will again be available online this year. And now I think I can save them, so you don't have to be there right when they're going on. See:
http://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/grounds
Bob
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