Re: Wondering if this is related

>I tried to go to clinic doctors at my college or the community clinic, and I ended up being told to take antidepressants and sleeping pills.

Bummer. I went once to a doctor at my college with an itchy red patch between my toes. The young doctor there told me he didn't know what it was. At least he was honest, but anyway, it was athlete's foot! I found that out with an appointment with the doctor on my next visit home with my parents.

I'm sure there are many, many good college doctors, and I've known a doctor that used to be a college orthopedist. He was indeed a good doctor.

Anyway, I certainly agree with your disdain for substituting antidepressants and sleeping pills for real diagnosis and doctoring. Too much of current medical training spends too much of the time teaching Pill 101, Pill 102, Pill...

I'm guessing that you are better off getting your own private physician. Don't feel that you need to diagnose yourself before you do that; that's what you're paying her/him for.

One of my doctors is a woman. The rest, all five of them, are men, and they're all quite capable and caring people. I've had some poor doctors of both genders and have learned not to keep going to anyone I didn't synch well with. Your best doctor choice might be a woman. Or it might be a man. Don't let a gender bias reduce the pool of potential good doctors you have to choose from.

Best wishes,
Mary

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