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    3.0 (2 reviews)

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    Savannah Psychiatry

    Savannah Psychiatry

    2.8(16 reviews)
    91.2 mi

    These people are a scam. THEY Will NOT TAKE MEDICARE. I have RSD and have thus been disabled for…read moreover 15 years now. I'm moving to Savannah and they told me they will not see the disabled. Being disabled due to pain, PTSD, Depression and having Aetna insurance is not good for them. It shows that they do not care about the community nor do they care about people the most in need. I have never been told by any doctor that because I am disabled they won't see me. They also refuse to see my wife on the same grounds. It has nothing to do with insurance because I was told by the front desk they take my insurance. Genie the impatient coordinator told me specifically they won't see me because of my disability. They need to be reported for violation of the ADA.

    I was a patient at Savannah Psychiatry for several years, going into it already having a diagnosis…read moreof general anxiety disorder and depression. I had been seeing someone for years before Sav Psych to treat these issues and mine were especially resistant to medication. I suffered for these years to the point that I had contemplated suicide several times. I disclosed this in my appointments, and the Sav physician gave me a series of meds (it's trial and error for this condition), but nothing worked. This younger doctor never suggested I meet with anyone more experienced nor did he consult with anyone else. Appointments are only 15 minutes at Sav Psych, the briefest I've ever encountered. There is no way to do a diligent assessment of a patient's condition in that amount of time, and it was obvious the doctor was not thinking about my case or researching it outside of these appointments. Visibly frustrated (not a great feeling as a patient with these conditions), he convinced me to try a TMS treatment that was brand new in the game and cost $10k out of pocket. The doc felt it was my only chance, save for an inpatient treatment somewhere. Sav Psych had conveniently just purchased the machine, and stood to benefit them in writing prescriptions for it. I did the treatment with no results. The doctor also prescribed me Xanax daily, a medication never meant for that kind of use. It actually exacerbated my anxiety (quelling it in the moment but when it wore off, spiking it higher than before). Horrible withdrawals and dependence come with this drug and that was never explained to me by my doctor beforehand. My doctor also did not ever write an Rx with refills, ensuring that I had to pay for a visit the next month to get my medication. I have moved now and on my first visit to my new psychiatrist, the doctor spent 3 hours talking to me. Each subsequent visit is at least an hour. Within a few tries of other meds, he automatically suggested an MAOI, which is not the norm, but it is within the known arsenal even by laypersons. Doctors use it in hard cases frequently (there are side effects, so not always). Within 6 weeks I was back to my old self, seeing the promise of a new life without the weight that had burdened me for so long. I was also off the Xanax completely in a couple of months at my doc's insistence and my whole-hearted desire to be rid of it. I know that my $10k was wasted, my time and expense with the doctor was wasted, and years of my life were wasted, spent in utter despair. And besides the negligent treatment, the front desk staff is atrocious. I have several friends who shared my experiences with this. Calls are not returned, messages not relayed, and a general lack of empathy is evident. People are calling there when they are at their most desperate, but it does not matter to them. Feeling withdrawals from medication is miserable, and the delay in getting meds was frequent. The doctor I have now has an online portal where you can email him directly, plus a caring staff. The contrast amplifies my anger at how cases are handled at Sav Psych. I have advised anyone whose sought my opinion on doctors not to go to Sav Psych. I really feel that my experience there could have cost me my life. If you have an easier case, it may be fine, but anything that takes a little work and ingenuity is over their heads. To be fair, I only interacted with one doctor and think some of the more seasoned ones could be better. This is the very first Yelp review I have ever written but feel very strongly about their protocol and practices. I hope it helps someone.

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    Andrea Fritschle, MD

    Andrea Fritschle, MD

    3.6(5 reviews)
    79.4 miGreater Arlington

    Dr Fritschle is treating my son in an inpatient program in California. I'm not sure now this is…read morelegal but tele-health makes all kinds of things possible. My son is diagnosed with schizophrenia, which she is not an expert in. The prior reviews about her schedule staying on time resonate with me. She is very in control of her schedule. Too in control to take care of her job. We discussed a well organized plan to switch his medication. He was on zyorexa and Deepa off. She said that if we were going to do that we had to get him off depacote as this is not compatible with caplyta. After six weeks of titrations down on the depacote she told him he can't have caplyta, which has been highly recommended for him by some other professionals I've engaged. Turns out caplyta is compatible with depacote (so she was just wrong and out my son though unnecessary stress taking him off of it) and he needs to be titrated off or zyorexa to take the caplyta. She told us she talked to the drug rep and he said it didn't work for schizophrenia. Not what he said. I was able to check. Titration off of zyprexa would require extra check ins with my son (see love of her schedule). I set up an appointment with my private consultant so she could learn what she didn't understand. She didn't show up after agreeing to make the call. My son is very disappointed. He wants to have better mental health without the side effects or zyprexa. Anyway, she's may be great in some cases but she's out of he depth, and is so focused on keeping her time under control she has failed to help as needed.

    Dr. Fritschle gets 2 stars rather than 1 star because she always runs on time. You will be taken…read moreback at the time of your appointment. That is very, very rare. It can also be a bad thing though b/c if you need an extra 5 minutes with her, you aren't going to get it because she runs on schedule no matter what, even if she has to cut you off. I don't like that. I also gave a second star because the office employees are all extremely nice and friendly. They always made me feel very comfortable. I'd prefer to not get into the medications I take, so I'm not going to. Suffice to say, there's a particular medication I have been taking for over 15 years and it is not a medication which you can just stop taking cold turkey because it can cause a stroke if you do. This is a medication that Dr. Fritschle refused to prescribe to me any longer, and that was fine with me. I knew I would have to find another doctor. She and I even discussed this. No problem. She gave me one last prescription for the medication which would last one month with no refills; however, the quickest I could get an appointment with a new psychiatrist because I was a new patient was 5 weeks out. Dr. Fritschle refused to refill the prescription. She even refused to give me a prescription for it even for just a week until I could get in with the new doctor. I absolutely did not understand this because as a doctor, she knew this was a medication I could not stop taking cold turkey. In the end, I had to go to my internal medicine doctor and he gave me a prescription for the medication until I could get in with my new psychiatrist. I'm lucky to have such a wonderful internal medicine specialist who was able to get me in immediately. It was a hassle, a pain, and caused me a lot of undue stress. When she called me, she was actually quite rude about the whole issue while on the phone with me. That was unnecessary. One would think a psychiatrist would not want to cause their patient any stress. I feel she was not looking out for my best interests as her patient.

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