u/peacecalmsassy

I am a PA. Graduated 25 years ago. I’ve been working in two different internal medicine subspecialties for the majority of my career. I have lived experience( albeit very mild) with BFRBs and experience trying to navigate the mental health world alongside a loved one with trich.

I am interested in working with a supervising physician focusing on pts with BFRBs. It appears there is a need for BFRB-focused care. I live in Michigan. I have not found psychiatrists that specialize in BFRBs. I know often these pts are referred to psychologists for HRT. It appears that a few psychiatrists that specialize in OCD see pts with BFRBs given that BFRBs are considered OCD-related disorders. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated, including if it felt there is not a need.

I was a bit hesitant to post this as I realize the issues related to the number of PAs and NPs working in psych ( actually, in all areas of medicine) and how that may at times negatively impact psychiatrists from the posts I have been reading. I see these same issues working alongside the hospitalist group which have been taken over by private equity firms.

Thank you the challenging (and often under appreciated) work that you all do.

We had CC and were mostly happy with it. Some dropped calls. Also if you are traveling to canada or Mexico, you have to notify them a week in advance of your trip as it is not included in their plan. And you have to be in the US for them to add the coverage. We found out after we were in Canada and had no signal. They could not remedy this unless we were back in the US. Because we need new phones ( iPhones 10 and 12), we decided to go with ATT through Costco. I found I would be paying the same rate as CC but would get 4 iPhone 16s. Because CC uses ATTs towers it was basically impossible to port our phone numbers from CC to ATT. We spent approximately 10 hours trying to make it work without success. So we signed on with Verizon which we keep short term then change over to ATT. Moral of the story, if there is a chance you may to go with ATT, do not go with CC.