I removed a star for a missed prescription refill request and for not being informed when Dr. Badja left the practice.
Better known as the rubber room,
I was seen over a year ago for the 1st time. Right after that they were starting having problem keeping staff members. They had to re-schedule my appointments and re-schedule finally after a few months of re-schedule calls I told them to take me off the list. Now my meds are not working and I am having trouble functioning. I called to make an appointment I have to call back next month to hopefully get an appointment in July. Patients were the med are the only thing keeping them going should have a priority.
I came to this facility in 2007 for bipolar illness. I came from NYC where may condition was stabilized by Edward M. Paul MD. I fell into the hands of a doctor addicted to tobacco and 7 years later I was diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease for the rest of my life. The addicted doctor never managed to return me to the stabilized condition I came from NYC. The closest he came was prescribing a medication I could not possibly afford, and I like many others was locked into samples which could only be obtained at this doctor's facility. My experience was contemptible.
Care is as good as your providers. I've been really fortunate in this area, first with Dr. Badja and then with Dr. Boscoe. Appointments staff has also been very accommodating.
I started seeing Dr. G in 2005 for depression. He first misdiagnosed me as schizoaffective, and put me on a hard cocktail of antipsychotics. Naturally, these drugs both destroyed my cognition and completely changed my personality. Those drugs gave me strong desires inflict harm on others while I had minimal control. This was something that I had never experienced before. Dr. G did not listen to me when I told him that these pills were giving me serious side effects. He just rolled his eyes and told me that it was his job to "keep my ass out of jail". He would increase the dosage, and switch me over to more antipsychotics, which only further made things worse. The drugs had changed me so much that I was no longer able to think rationally or clearly. I was lost in an imaginary world with the thinking process of a 7 year old. He then changed my diagnosis to Bipolar, which resulted in another change of drugs. I was so drugged, that people thought that I was autistic. I was sent to the state lunatic ward by the orders of Dr. G, and it was there that I was diagnosed as having Aspergers. It wasn't until years later that I decided to come off the drugs myself, and to stop seeing this doctor. Within months, I had lost 100 pounds and regained my cognition. I was beginning to feel alive for the first time in over a decade. As it turns out, I'm not schizoaffective, bipolar, or even on the autistic spectrum. I am not even really depressed. I have built up anger from a rotten childhood, which I am learning to deal with that as time goes on. Unfortunately, mental health records are forever and carry that dreaded stigma. Even though I was misdiagnosed, I will always be seen as a "defective". I can't believe that I went through such hell for years under the lies of being "mentally defective" and drugged. It was the damn drugs that caused all of this mess in the first place! I have literally spent almost all of my childhood and 20's in this hell. The mental health system is a joke is it destroys lives!
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