Preparing for your doctor's appointment before you go will ensure that you get the most out of every visit with your psychiatrist. Here are ten practical questions to ask:
1. What is my diagnosis and how did you come to that conclusion?
This question is vital to ask when you first begin seeing your pdoc. In the 1980s, when I first got sick, there was a tendency to keep a patient's diagnosis hush-hush, whether to protect him or because of the stigma. Either way, this did everyone...
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Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Schizophrenia
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