My doctor there is great- he is not the problem at all...I adore him and have the utmost respect for him... but the policy they have in place now for scheduling your next appointment is absolutely ridiculous....I am CONSTANTLY forced to go weeks to a month, one time it was 2 months, without my, medication. This isn't a once in a while thing - it is every single time you try to make your next appt. That is just unacceptable. I can say with certainty that every single time I try to make my next appointment, bc of their new ridiculous scheduling policy, I have to go at least a week, usually 2 to 3 weeks, without medication. I have severe ADHD and have great difficulty functioning at my job without my medication. My boss and coworkers can tell immediately when I am not medicated. I also have a second job doing taxes....try doing that with ADHD and no medication. It's so unfair and inconsiderate. Before they changed their scheduling policy, you would schedule your next appt. (3 months out) at the end of your current appt. In other words, you would see your doctor, he sends over 3 prescriptions to your pharmacy (each one containing a month worth of meds), at the end of the appointment, you would then schedule your next appt, 3 months away. This was the case for years. And it worked great. Suddenly they changed their policy - you can no longer do that. You have to now wait until a week before your last script runs out to call for an appointment. Except the doctors are booked out for at least a month - soooo you have a WEEK LEFT OF MEDICATION but cannot see your doctor FOR A MONTH. It's LUDICROUS?! HOW CAN YOU BAR ME FROM MAKING AN APPT UNTIL I AM A WEEK AWAY FROM RUNNING OUT OF MEDICATION, WHEN YOUR DOCTORS DO NOT HAVE ANY AVAILABLE APPTS FOR OVER A MONTH?! This went on for a year almost. Every 3 months I would have to go without my medication for 2 to 3 weeks or more. I complained, cried, got angry every single time. Was offered ZERO help other than yeeea sorry. I got such an attitude from the person on the phone. They did not care at all. They did not seem to think it was a problem at all to go without psych medication for upwards of a MONTH. Eventually I was told I could call 2 WEEKS before I run out of my medication. THEIR DOCTORS ARE BOOKED FOR UPWARDS OF A MONTH OR MORE SO HOW DOES THIS RECTIFY ANYTHING? Thank you so much, so now I only have to go 2 WEEKS without my meds instead of 3 WEEKS?! Are you kidding me?! I took it upon myself to begin calling a month before I ran out. Sometimes they let me , sometimes Im told I had to call back in 2 wks. Once, after I was told this, I called back 2 wks later....no available appts for 2 MONTHS BC MY DOCTOR IS ON VACATION. You cannot make this stuff up. Sometimes I would get "oh, your medication doesnt run out for a month" "yes I am aware of that. But your doctors arent available for a month. See what I did there? It's very simple math really. I am tired of having to wait weeks to a month or two to be able to get an appt when I only have a week of medication left. How can you guys POSSIBLY still pretend like this isnt a HUGE problem?!"
Unprofessional. Disrespectful. Uncaring. How can you treat your psych patients this way? I always do what I am supposed to do, I never cause any problems....but I've HAD it with the blatant disrespect and the fact that you are offered zero solutions to the problem that THEY CREATED. This is infuriating. Every time I call to make my appointment it is a nightmare. And nobody cares. At all. I could not in good conscience recommend any psych patients in need of psych meds go here for treatment, unless you don't really need your medication, like, THAT bad, and or you can go weeks without it. How many doctors would EVER tell their psych patient to just not take their medication for a month every few month?! Meh, skip 2 wks here and there, noooo biggie ?!?! It seems...kind of reckless to continually put your patients in this kind of predicament and offer no support or solution other than a refill clinic which you only FINALLY just opened , but which only CERTAIN patients are able to utilize (I'm not one of them). read more