Brit: Tough Love for Doctor Phil?

Like Britney doesn't have enough problems! Now, contrary to the quality time she's said to have spent with TV's Dr. Phil before leaving Cedars-Sinai, TMZ tells us the visit was actually more of an ambush. 

And the instigators were reportedly none other than Brit's family, who inexplicably are rumored to be appearing on Dr. Phil this week.

The Website quotes sources on the floor where Britney was hospitalized as saying Dr. Phil showed up Saturday morning unbeknownst to Brit, and she was not happy to see him, even walking out of the room.

Sources tell TMZ Brit returned, and the good doc talked at her for about 15 minutes (not the hour of conversation he publicized in his press release). Further, it's now being reported that Dr. Phil didn't exactly walk Britney to her car but, rather, sort of followed her, presumably continuing to dole advice.

The Website got a "no comment" when it asked Cedars-Sinai why they "let a television doctor on a floor that has such fragile patients, particularly since Britney had no idea he was coming."

On Dr. Phil's show site, promos tease a "BRITNEY SPEARS EXCLUSIVE" this Tuesday, with this further description: "Dr. Phil paid an exclusive visit to Britney Spears just moments before she left the hospital where she was admitted. Get the details of his one-on-one with the troubled pop star..."

Not surprisingly, sources tell TMZ, "Based on the interaction between Dr. Phil and Britney this morning, it'll be a cold day in hell before Britney goes on his show."

So, we'll take that as a no, and it remains to be seen if her parental units show up, as Lynne is rumored to still be in Lousiana, where she was photographed at the grave of her sister on the day her daughter was being let out of the psych ward.

But maybe to Dr. Phil's daytime-TV-doctoring ears, all of these things taken together add up to a cry for help.