Talkiatry Reviews

I will reiterate, the information that caused them to make this decision was about an incident from *TEN Years Ago*. Policies like this are actively harmful to patients; we don't all have time to see someone in person (and in-person doctors that take insurance are much rarer), and so the logical result is that people in my position are simply going to find a different doctor, and then omit information from their history. Which obviously won't help anyone because then the doctor won't have the full picture of the patient. But policies like this encourage that, they *don't* encourage people to go way out of their way to put themselves in a position to be forced into hospitalization (which is a whole other issue).

I will note, I doubt this is the fault of my individual doctor. It looked like she had a checklist she was running down that made it practice policy not to treat certain people. Awful. I got a follow up email referring me to all sorts of emergency services; like I said, no longer relevant. It's quite condescending. Other issues include: The system for matching you with a doctor is really bad. I had put in certain parameters, and the list of doctors I got to choose from did not meet all my categories. In the end I was given one option that met my needs, so I managed, but it doesn't make sense to ask what your requirements are and then offer options that don't meet them.

They say their office hours are standard local business hours, but the language and typos suggest that the people you're communicating with are not located locally. Maybe they are; I doubt it. Seems more likely they want to pretend that they are. Also, some of these communications are just silly. Over email, I was asked to confirm my identity by providing my email. Hello??? All in all, skip Talkiatry. There have to be better options out there.