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Thank you for visiting my home page! My name is Haifeng Yu and I am a physician in the Psychiatry Department here at Kaiser Permanente. I would like to share some information about myself.

I decided that I wanted to attend medical school for many reasons. It all started when I had an experience when I was 12 years old involving a patient who had leukemia. I established a friendship with the patient and was very sad when she passed away and couldn’t be saved. I care about people more than anything else. You only have one chance to live in this world, so why not do something interesting and challenging like saving a life. I was also number one in my class in both Hard Science (physics, math, chemistry, biology and geology) and Soft Science (anthropology, history, psychology and sociology). Since medicine is the art of combining both Hard and Soft Sciences, it was a great fit for me.

I choose Psychiatry because I really care about people, enjoy listening to them and want to help them. I believe that the way our brain processes our thoughts and emotions is complicated and I enjoy the challenge. I think that emotional pain and suffering is worse than physical pain and suffering.

I also worked as an Internal Medicine Physician for many years and felt that Internal Medicine used more of my Hard Science talent and less Soft Science talent and psychiatry is a good balance of both.

I am confident in Psychiatry because I received top scores in the nation in psychiatric medication management in residency training. Also, my Internal Medicine background helped me think wider and understand more about the relation between body and mind. I believe that to be an excellent clinician you need more than good skills and knowledge, you must have clinical instinct. Clinical Instinct is something you cannot obtain totally by learning. I believe I have good clinical instinct and while I was in residency training I even had several patients pay out of their pocket to see me. I am calm, a good listener, flexible and I love Psychiatry.

My practice philosophy is to treat my patients using the least amount of medication as possible and to put the person first, the symptoms and disease second. I do not decide on the treatment for a patient but help the patient make the decision by my expertise. I think that medication is not the only method of treatment and that patients can also benefit from education, psychotherapy, food, yoga, taiji, qigong, exercise, music, arts, relaxing, meditating and exercise.

I choose to work for Kaiser Permanente because I felt that it was well organized, had an advanced support system, which I feel improves the communication between physicians and patients and the staff try very hard to help people.

In my spare time, I enjoy reading (especially detective stories and novels), watching movies, listening to classical and popular music, traveling, playing table tennis, taking walks, exercising qigong, watching sports (especially the Olympic. Games) and listening to people talk.

Be Well and Thrive!

My Credentials

Medical school	Shanghai Second Medical College, Shanghai, China
Residency	Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Board certification	Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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