Feminist Interview Essay

The prescribing health provider I interviewed is a part-time psychiatrist at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. To begin, I started the interview by inquiring how she prepared herself to work in the field of psychiatry. For her undergraduate study, she stated that her major was in biology at first but, after being fascinated to learn about psychological aspects of chronic medical illnesses in her health psychology class, she changed her major to psychology. Then, she went to medical school to study psychiatry and got her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. After residency and the training, she became board certified to practice psychiatry. She has been working at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System for the past 8 years. Her job duties entail
She has encountered many PTSD patients with sleep disturbance (i.e., difficulty falling or staying asleep or restless sleep), which is included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) as a diagnostic criterion for PTSD (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). To help patients with PTSD and the sleep difficulty, she stated that she prescribes trazodone (Desyrel) or mirtazapine (Remeron) with an SSRI for more natural sleep and less stressful waking
On the contrary, he stated that what he does like least about his professional role is the fact that government is too controlling and that there is lack of autonomy as a doctor. He stated that, since the government pays for the patient health care, it directs doctors what to do when it is not convincing or does not make sense to doctors. For the biggest disappointments or challenges with his present patient population, he stated that some of his patients think that the insurance is free that they try to overutilize what they can possibly