Ok so more on the psych issue. I have put in a formal complaint about the psychiatrists behaviour. I have specifically asked that she not be gjven any access to my notes and be asked to leave the room when my case is being discussed, pending the complaint being dealt with.
Today my caseworker said his manager told him that the psych is part of the team and so cannot be excluded.
I talked with the manager and said that was absolutely inappropriate. She should be asked to leave the room when I was being discussed. He said he could not do that. I pointed out that as I refuse to be treated by her sharing info with her is breaching confidentiality....round we go.
Net result is that I cannot access any support until this changes. I have had an awful awful week, this weekend will be worse. Cannot think of Sunday without thinking of swallowing all my trazodone at once with whiskey. And am abandoned. No drugs, no help, nothing.
The procedures here are a joke and absolutely unethical.
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Thursday, 18 June 2015
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If you have withdrawn your consent for that psychiatrist to be involved (put it in writing, specifically stating that) then they should be off the team and send a sub. In my old team we regularly changed someone's keyworker if that was, for whatever reason, requested: it happens in MH.
ReplyDeleteIf you have made a formal complaint about a named individual then that individual should be excluded from contact with you while the complaint is investigated (speaking as a former NHS complaints investigator, and the maker of a complaint about my manager - they couldn't speak to me for the best part of a year, which was nice). Ask for a copy of the trust's complaints policy, if you haven't already, then quote chapter and verse at them - you are allowed a copy and anyone who tells you otherwise is not being truthful.
That manager is talking out of their arse. Threaten them with a further complaint about their obstructive, and clinically inappropriate behaviour. Have you contacted PALS?
No, I am not going to make any further comment about NHS managers...Honest...All those who know me can fill in the rest anyway.
Cathy made a comment elsewhere about me being much more "difficult" than her: I hope I am living up to my reputation.
As I have said before, there are times it is hard for me to defend the NHS and this is another one.
I was being tongue in cheek about you being 'difficult'. After all, it's the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl!
DeleteI'm a fatherless bastard, so will be free all Sunday if you want to text etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd fuck - They need to get her gone so you can access the care that they have a duty to provide to you. Wot Murmur Said.
You don't have to defend the NHS Murmur, it's a cracking institution. The procedures and rules around these situations also seem to be fair enough. The problems here seems to be a few bumbletwats ballsing things up for my mate. It's them that I'd cunt in the fuck given half a chance and a decent alibi.
ReplyDeleteI've got a chance to get some cash in hand work on Sunday, so will be largely tied up. I will try and drop by and make some wildly inappropriate comments though.
Bloody hell. What Murmur said +1.
ReplyDeleteWill be without internet access for a few days as taking a triplet up some mountains and staying in a remote village hotel.
NHS at its best is wonderful, I should know. But at its worst...Inky, all I know is that you're right, this manager is wrong and acting against the rules.
Could you stay functioning until Tuesday so that when I get back I can find out what's happened? (And also because I like you...)
Lx
My father was abusive. You could say he ruined my life and laid the traumatic foundation for my later years of severe mental illness. I have given him a beautiful book on Veronese for Sunday because he might die soon (he is 83) and maybe there will not be another Fathers Day for him. So it's a tricky day for many (not discounting your distress in any way at all, of course).
ReplyDeleteInky I really feel for you. Love always. TP
Ty.
ReplyDeleteShould be clear its not my father that makes sunday hard. Its my total failure as husband and father. I cant make it through a day of best daddy mugs.
Ummm, Inky, dear horse, I think you will find that your situation is just a little bit more complicated than that...
ReplyDeleteThere have been factors well outside your control; other people are involved - y'know, relationships do take more than one person. That class of thing.
Stop beating yourself up (beat yourself all you like otherwise) and take The Murmur Attitude to all these this-that-or-the-other-days: sod it! Celebrate what you want, when you want and everything else can just go, errrrr, just go!
By my standards I have failed
ReplyDeleteThat must be dreadfully painful. I think these stupid 'days' should be abolished. They often give pain to people eg if their parents have recently died, or if they have troubled relationships with their parents, or indeed people like you. Drat them - stupid US invention of card manufacturers.
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