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Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)Comment receiving replies
@joyces you sound incredibly healthy and active. Does your transplant team include a psychologist? My dad's team does, she specializes in transplant. We work closely with his entire transplant team and often speak with his coordinator and psychologist. They have both grown to know my father and I very well. I do have POA so I will often call and let them know if something is something is going on that needs to be addressed. His primary care doctor we only see once a year and has little input, he prefers to always consult back with the transplant team.
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I think we met all the people on the team when he was first put on the list for transplant, and there was no psychologist. For the first six months, we saw various members of the transplant team quite often. I asked more than once about depression. The doc present would ask Marty if he was depressed and he'd say he wasn't. End of discussion each time! Ever since the initial year, we only see one of the docs once a year, and we didn't get a call last fall, so it's now been well over a year since we've seen any of the team members.
What a concept: a psychologist on the team, since depression may follow transplant!