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I'm not sure if this is even thread worthy but I like chatting with other colleagues on this forum. I just can't help but keep wondering some of the things I see from non psychiatrists. But I guess this is to be expected anywhere in medicine where the other person is not the specialist (although some of this stuff sounds a bit obvious even for a non psychiatrist to know?). I see benzo as first line for so much in the community. Most recently, seeing a flurry of patients who lost children and they got started on a benzo as first line and that seems to be all they got. I was like whaaaaaa? Last thing you'd want to do for a traumatic event. Some are coming in with use disorders going so far as claiming theirs were stolen as asking for early refills of 1mg xanax tid. One lady filled 210 (1mg) xanax tabs in less than a month and calls the clinic sounding (&*$'ed out of her mind.
That would be like a patient coming to my office complaining of chest pain radiating to the arm and i send them home with NG and tell them to sleep it off...
That would be like a patient coming to my office complaining of chest pain radiating to the arm and i send them home with NG and tell them to sleep it off...