There is a certain level of trust seeing a doctor; a professional. Sadly, for me anyway, this wasn't my experience - maybe Cynthia Dyess was just having a bad day.
Cynthia Dyess was the QME picked from a Panel for a Worker's Compensation psych eval. She evaluated me for 50 minutes; the first 30 minutes was spent taking 3 rey tests, asking me about my father, my family, places I've lived and worked. As she was ushering me to the door she stated I couldn't afford her, I'd need therapy for this once a week for at least a year, she gave me a referral of a colleague because in her words "there are no good worker's comp. doctors". I left our brief meeting feeling she would be recommending I get the help I need.
Not once did she ask how I felt or how the WC claim has affected my life. When she finally did ask why I was there she said to "concisley explain what happened ", unfortunately, what happened to me could not be explained in 5 minutes or less, when I began to explain I looked up at her and saw a look of boredom and impatience, so I stopped - that was it.
She said she'd have her report done by the end of day, basing my state of mind and physical well-being off of the medical records sent to her earlier? - why did I need to be there since she showed no interest finding out why I had to file the worker's compensation claim. Can a therapist adaquately know a person in 50 minutes and not ask or understand what happened to them? A competent doctor/therapist would spend the time to understand why the person was there to talk to them in the first place.
At the end of all this she lied to me - to my face and made statements in her QME report that were never discussed, said or even factual. I'll have to find a way to pay someone to help me work through my work related depression and anxiety or just kill myself - thank you Cynthia Biased.
If you do see this lady as a QME, hopefully, you can focus her attention on the reason you're there, not the relationship you had with your father. Don't let her spend the majority of the time she's billing workers compensation on timing you counting dots, a child can do that. Be mindful what Dyess says to you, it may not be true.
Psychiatrist's expert in their field know it takes hours of face-to-face time to diagnose and perform a proper evaluation of a patient.
It appears Dyess has the unskilled Dunning-Kruger effect, in no way will she re-eval her evals.
She is correct on one thing, she is not a good Worker's Comp. QME. read more