Partners In Psychiatry

Good people, good location. Chittenden County desperately needs reliable mental health professionals and there are several at this location. So explain to us, please, why they are closing up shop at the end of October.
When you consider the lack of psychopharmacologists in northwestern Vermont (I can’t speak to the situation anywhere else in the state), this is mind-​boggling. One person leaves, then a second, and then it’s Goodbye, Columbus, and goodbye, everyone else. No-​one else is stepping in to pick up the pieces, which will leave a large number of patients desperately searching for help.
Primary care physicians are running scared, afraid of angering the DEA unwilling to prescribe certain medications to patients who desperately need them. And the fact is that PCPs are not the right people to be prescribing psych meds. Not a good situation.