Psychopharmacology
It is a simple process for a physician to write a prescription. It is something altogether different to write the correct prescription for an individual's specific illness.
In this world of hurried managed care, five minute visits and limited availability to physician care, medicine is now reduced to the treatment of symptoms, not the illness. At Princeton Family Care Associates, we believe that the first step in proper medication management is the dedication of time for a thorough and complete assessment, with psychological testing, psychometric scales, and when appropriate, laboratory testing. This comprehensive analysis leads to a clear understanding of the patient's troubling symptoms and a more accurate diagnosis. To prescribe appropriately, a correct diagnosis is paramount.
Dr. Fernandez and our clinical staff attempt to understand your psychiatric illness in terms of our modern knowledge of psychiatric symptoms and their association to known cerebral functions and neural pathways. Medications are then selected focused on your specific presentation and neurochemical expression.
In a less complicated psychiatric illness, our expectation is at least a 20% improvement in symptoms in three weeks and a fairly complete recovery by the sixth week of treatment.
In this world of hurried managed care, five minute visits and limited availability to physician care, medicine is now reduced to the treatment of symptoms, not the illness. At Princeton Family Care Associates, we believe that the first step in proper medication management is the dedication of time for a thorough and complete assessment, with psychological testing, psychometric scales, and when appropriate, laboratory testing. This comprehensive analysis leads to a clear understanding of the patient's troubling symptoms and a more accurate diagnosis. To prescribe appropriately, a correct diagnosis is paramount.
Dr. Fernandez and our clinical staff attempt to understand your psychiatric illness in terms of our modern knowledge of psychiatric symptoms and their association to known cerebral functions and neural pathways. Medications are then selected focused on your specific presentation and neurochemical expression.
In a less complicated psychiatric illness, our expectation is at least a 20% improvement in symptoms in three weeks and a fairly complete recovery by the sixth week of treatment.
