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1/29/09 |
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I found him very scary. I would never go to a psychiatrist again. He made inappropriate comments and I actually felt very uncomfortable with him. I came into his office with issues of anxiety and came out with a lot more of it!
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11/8/08 |
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I found this doctor, who treated me for over a year, to be manipulative and abrasive. He MADE sign a letter of recommendation or said my disability would be at risk. He moves around a lot Ottawa, Windsor, British Columbia. I wonder why???
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11/8/08 |
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I saw Dr. Fattah for 5 years and found him to be extremely caring and extremely helpful. I don't think I would be the person I am today without his unwavering support and belief in me. He helped me to have hope that things would get better ---and they did!! Sometimes he could be tough on me, but it was necessary to help me make the changes I needed to make, and he was only tough when he knew I could handle it. When I came in really distressed, he was a kind and patient listener. I can see why his style is not for everyone, but he was a tremendous help to me and I am really thankful for that. In the end, every patient must work with a Dr. whom they can develop a rapport with, otherwise the treatment will not be effective.
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10/26/08 |
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This psychiatrist did a very good work with comforting the patients. He did not take it very seriously about the medications and the disagnosis. He did have the very good side of talking with the patients. He failed to acknowledge the true medication needs.
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9/30/08 |
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i saw him for about 3 years. he was very helpful for the most part. however, when he left private practice for a new position, he left me hanging without a referral to a new psychiatrist. i spiralled downwards big time with my depression and did not find a new shrink for 6 months. i was extremely angry by his thoughtlessness and neglect for his patients. while he was helpful for the most part, his behaviour at the end was dreadful!
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8/22/08 |
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This individual should not have a license to practice psychiatry - or anything else, for that matter. A physician's first responsibility is to "DO NO HARM"..... however, Dr. Abdell-Fattah consistently broke this principle...... He over-prescribed a plethora of psychotropics, which, to this day I am still being weaned off of (I saw him in 2002). These "medications" have seriously compromised my mental and physical health and basically were detrimental to my general well-being. In addition, he kept me waiting during an ENTIRE session while he saw a walk-in off the street. This was after he had me committed to the psych ward as a punitive measure. He was rude, arrogant and self-righteous the entire time I was "under his care". After I finally left this practice I had the misfortune to bump into him in public - where he was obnoxious, embarrassing and inappropriate in front of many others. He never had any respect for patient confidentiality and should be deemed a disgrace to the field.
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6/25/08 |
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I Feel sorry for anyone who has experienced man. With pills being pushed down your throat and changed every time you see him doesnt seem to helpful. Also he is quick to diagnose. I also have a complaint letter in about his innapprpriate behaviour. The more people who send these complaint letters the better to get this doctor out of the field of psychiatry
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4/4/08 |
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perhaps a bit too late now, however would be helpful if this dr. makes a radical chamge and elects to make a living in some other more productive way. if he ever had any skills are now long gone!!
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3/21/08 |
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I credit Dr. Abdelfattah for helping me tremendously, the first time 22 years ago in Ottawa, when I was only 16 and suicidal, and the second time in my early 20s. He was instrumental in helping me gain independence and giving me the strength to pull away from a bad home environment. Nobody is perfect, and it is true that Dr. Abdelfattah is someone who is stubborn and holds different ideas about treatment than the norm. However, he was able to help me turn my life around, not once but twice in my life, and for that I owe him my deepest gratitude. We parted on awkward terms, but I will never forget how he made me feel-- that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to, and that I was worthy of a good life. For this I am forever thankful.
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1/12/08 |
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I was shocked by his behaviour! The moment he sauntered in, he told me to never again wear perfume as it offended him. He spent the next ten minutes perusing my file, sat back and asked me to describe my life. I think I spoke for almost seven minutes before he interrupted me and told me there was no possible way he could even begin to deal with me before I was on some serious medication. He wrote a prescription and told me to come back in three months. He got up and walked out. I called my sister, who is a nurse, and read the name of the drugs he wanted me to take. One was an ANTI-PSYCHOTIC!! The other was the strongest prescription available for manic bi-polar disorder and after some internet research, I found that they were NEVER to be taken simultaneously. Tore up that little piece of paper, took a strip off my family MD and found counselling in my own back yard. By myself!! If you ever find his name attached to the "please see..." RUN!!
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11/21/07 |
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This doctor is keen to assign a label for depression. If one is not manic depressive, then maybe adhd, or maybe ... Anyhow, just walking into his office, with lots of bottles and packs of pills on his desk should have been a warning to me. Sure enough, his answer to depression is pills ... and more pills to counter the effect of the other pills! Labelling people is a sure way to CAUSE depression and although I probably am ADD, I am functioning extremely well on a very low dose of one of the pills he had tried (but was reluctant to keep me on). I now see a Shrink who treats me like a person, rather than a sick person. And he listens to my concerns ... isn't that what a shrink should include in treatment?
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9/13/07 |
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This doctor was very inaffective, he prescribed the wrong medication, he was very rude, and so much more. This Doctor, after seeing him through the Emergency at Lions Gate Hospital more than once within a short period of time. This first time he told my wife and I that my brain wasn't working properly and gave me an ativan and another pill (which he did not tell us what it was) waited until I was completely sedated and then sent me home with my wife and children (I had no place else to go), and then again after having a very bad psychotic episode we went back to the Hospital where I ended up with him again. After lots of tests, including a CAT scan, he came into the office, told me I had brain damage and was a drug addict and then proceeded to tell my wife that he was going to call Child Protection Services on her but would not give an explanation on why. He made a huge mistake with that as she went directly to the local MLA and others and now there has been a formal complaint.
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3/12/07 |
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If anyone reccomends this Dr. to you - find someone else. I ended up in the hospital because of his treatment - which I reported to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. You can contact them as the letter is on file - in hope it might help others, if he has any other complaints maybe they can take away his license. He is Freudian and is not up to date on the latest Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques - which are cutting edge at the world renown Mood Disorders Clinic at UBC. Fattah, was rude, innapropriate (getting a patient to apologize in the reception area for their appointment going over time) and his treatment was abusive. He didn't prescribe the right medications and pushed me to the brink causing my hospitalization - he is dangerous. Since leaving his care and getting top notch care through doctors at VGH and UBC programs-my whole world has changed. I am fully recovered and doing better than I have been in my whole life (and this is since 2003). Shop for your shrink!
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