May 2019 by Patrick N.
I was seeing a psychiatrist here for a while, but when she retired they brought in a new psychiatrist. I tried to keep an open mind seeing a new psychiatrist, but almost immediately there were red flags. Without any justifiable reason she insisted on changing my psych meds even though they were working perfectly fine as they have for nearly twenty years. After being on the new meds for a month I had another appointment, and I explained to her that they were not working and I would like to go back onto my original medication regiment. I take medication for attention deficit disorder that are essential for me to function. She then refuses to prescribe me my original medication until I get an EKG from my primary care doctor. I go get the EKG and the doctor said it was perfectly healthy. However, when the new psychiatrist gets there report, she says there's a problem with it and refuses to prescribe me my meds until I see a cardiologist. Mind you this is in the middle of a semester that I'm taking three classes on top of working 50+ hours a week. So I see the cardiologist 3 times: to do a 24 EKG, an echogram and a consultation. The cardiologist says I have a perfectly healthy and normal heart. The cardiologist faxes the results to the new psychiatrist. This time the psychiatrist says she needs a noterized statement from him saying that I can take the specific medication. So I call them back and have that faxed over as well. After three months of being running around doing these tasks, my GPA fell 2 points, I've missed 4 days of work due to all the superfluous appointments, and I've spent a large amount of money that I didn't have: after all of this she says she won't put me back on my original medication. She essentially just wanted me to accept the medication that she wanted to prescribe me or make it so difficult to get the medication I was originally on that I would just quit and go somewhere else. She did this at the expense of my grades, my job performance, my time, and my money. She told face lied to me for months knowing full well that even if I did all these things she would still refuse to put me back on my original medication that I've been taking for almost twenty years. She does all of this with this condescending, smug, patronizing sense of self importance. Never in my entire life have I ever met someone so cold, inconsiderate and negligent of a patient's concerns and well being. What chuffed me the most was she pretended to do all of this stuff out of "concern" for me, even though after I had to EKGs and an echogram that said I was perfectly qualified for my medication she refused to prescribe it to me or even give a good reason why she wouldn't. Her name is Maria Ramar, and if you plan on seeing her or going to Catholic charities I implore you to literally see anyone else. What she did was absolutely shameful and irresponsible.
