forum for review of doctor

What would be the appropriate way to tell my story?

I was raked over the coals by a couple of total quacks and I would really like to discuss it including giving their names. I don't know if that's appropriate here, is there another type of forum to do that?

There's so much about these two that it would make for a good book. Essentially my life was pretty good until I was referred to them to discuss pain managment.

I thought that it was going to basically be discussing various ways of dealing with pain mentally and not through medication.

It turns out that he had NOTHING. He was marketing himself as a pain specialist, but he basically just tried to force various abnormal psych diagnoses on me that didn't fit AT ALL. I didn't have personal problems, I just was IN PAIN.

He tried to diagnose me with like four different abnormal psychology diagnoses. With no evidence. He ended up with like one symptom between all four of the things he diagnosed me with (trouble sleeping) which didn't make sense because I had been diagnosed with primary insomnia!

It was bad, and it took three years of my life away, and counting.

At the very minimum I think I would like to say that he works with a frequented pain management clinic in Portland, Oregon.

He markets himself to doctors, Pain Management and a Neurologist, to basically take problem patients off of the doctors hands. So it works really well for the pain doctor who with a heafty God complex would really like to believe that patients he can't cure are just difficult or nuts.

Then patients end up with a chronic pain problem and a diagnosis of nuts that they probably won't be able to shake, because the required level of actual evidence or specificity is pretty low.

Likely if you are in chronic pain for ten years you will end up with a minimum amount of functioning and even interpersonal problems, so they will be able to rummage around in it to come up with some type of garbage can diagnosis like personality disorder or depression. So your pain doctor will end up thinking that there is some other problem other than physical and will be off the hook for treating you aggressively.

I would recommend that anyone who works with a pain management clinic in Portland Oregon resist seing any associated psychotherapist fairly.

One of the many many inappropriate things that he did was suggest that I up my dosage of pain meds. This was because I had basically seen him for six months and there was absolutely no practical suggestion coming from him whatsoever, and he got genuinely HOSTILE when I asked him if there was any kind of diagnosis.

He had been telling my pain doctor that I was messed up and he could fix me, and he had nothing. He first tried to say that I had been abused by my parents. Then he did the mood disorder thing (everyone in chronic pain has good days and bad days) and then when I became frustrated with HIM because it was obvious that I was being taken for a ride, THEN it was personality disorder).

Finally I said look, doc, what am I here for, what can I do? That was because asking me probing questions, looking perplexed, asking more, looking perplexed, asking more, looking perplexed was getting a bit old. I reminded him that I wasn't there to talk about my chilhood. I didn't have any marital or interpersonal problems. I was IN PAIN. So what did he think I should do about it?

He suggested that I ASK FOR MORE PAIN MEDS! So then even the doctor that REFERRED ME got pretty ticked off. He said that was way out of line. But he still at this guy's suggestion ended up suggesting putting me on various psych meds, then yanking them cold turkey.

Basically because my doctors were actually listening to this guy, he was practicing medicine without a license, and without a CLUE.

These people are really hurting people there in Portland, so if anyone would like the name of this guy, please contact me.

Sorry, there are many more details.

But of course anything I posted about this guy would be absolutely true in fact backed up by my charts. I have my pain doc in one of his chart notes saying that he didn't appreciate the shrik putting ideas in my head that I was on a low dose of pain med. I probably wouldn't have been cranked up if it weren't for him.

I don't want to just ruin this guy or anything, either. He admits to me very clearly that he doesn't think he can help me. But he won't provide me with anything saying that that I can use to give to my doctors. All I need is for him to say "There is no diagnostic path for psychotherapy" so I will be saved the headshrinking hell, but for some strange reason he won't do it.

All I want is to be released from this nightmare that is doing neither of us any good, but he won't do it. He has made it personal and is just pouting because he resents me personally and is doing what he can to be difficult. Lovely. It reminds me of something that he said, at one point was that abuse that I had when I was nine was probably my fault. People should stay away from this guy, and I probably should do what I can to publicize it, but at this point I just want out.