Dear Nikola,

From your letter I infer that you are feeling (much) better. I hope that I am correct.

Please don't be disappointed, try to understand, and don't be angry when, however much I want to help you,  I describe the prohibition that prevents me from issuing the prescriptions which are required to obtain the medications which you need.

In the course of the 67 years that I have been practicing medicine, I have become more and more convinced that the practice of medicine is a societal function, that what I am permitted to do and prohibited from doing as a licensed physician is determined by the opinions of the members of the society in which we find ourselves enmeshed. If my intuition is correct, no member of my own family, no member of your family, no medical colleague of mine, no public official, no member of the Board of Registration in Medicine, no member of the Office of the Attorney General, no judge of the Superior Court, of the Court of Appeals or of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts would approve of my writing a single prescription for you, even if it were demonstrable beyond a reasonable doubt that that prescription, which is impossible, had "cured" you of your illness; while none of the aforementioned critics would blame a practicing "board certified" psychiatrist for a prescription which inadvertently, - or not so inadvertently -, did you incalculable harm.`The society in which we live is not rational, but to survive, we must adapt ourselves to its irrationality.

What I ask of you is that long before you run out of medication which you might need, you make an appointment either with a psychiatrist whom you know, including Drs. Delisi, Weather, Rediger or Rako.  You should consider the psychology of the psychiatrist whose ego has been bruised by the lapse of a relationshop.  There is a substantial probability that he or she will be relieved to have you back.

Alternatively you can go shopping for a psychiatrist on the Internet by googling "Psychiatrist in greater Boston MA".  which will give you, among other URL's https://thriveboston.com/boston-psychiatry.html which issues the invitation: "If you're looking for more information about psychiatry in Boston, or are ready to schedule a session with a licensed psychiatrist in Cambridge, MA, simply call us at 617-395-5806."

So long as I am physically and mentally able, I will always be available without limitation, to listen to whatever you wish to tell me, to read whatever you wish to write to me, and to try to show you my perspectives on the issues that concern you. That is a First Amendment right which the bureaucrats cannot quench.

EJM