Editing Grace Tian (section)

=='''''Psychological Profile'''''==
Tian is a compassionate woman who knows how to temper her empathy with pragmatism. She is a consummate professional when it comes to her medical skills, but beneath that cool exterior she is a generally happy person who enjoys life. It has always been clear too that her son comes first. She is a loving albeit somewhat strict parent, and she is proud of her son for choosing to follow in his father's footsteps. Having lost her husband in the first U-War, Tian could have become bitter and left military service but instead she was driven to keep other families from suffering the kind of loss that she and her son faced and continued on in the Alliance Navy, taking care of every soldier who came under her care not just with professional courtesy but genuine kindness.

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<i>Notes from the files of psychologist Cmdr. Ian Rothschild:</i>
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Report Entered into Alliance Navy Medical Service Records
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Patient: Lt. Cmdr Grace Tian, MD<br>

After a full six-week required course of treatment, I find the following:

1) Dr. Grace is suffering mild anxiety and post-traumatic stress that I would expect to see in any of our soldiers returning from battle. She is coping with nightmares of the navy's retreat from Vandenburg and also reports flashback bad dreams of her husband's death in the U-War but is dealing with them in a healthy manner consistent with her personality. Her time in captivity with the enemy was, by her own accounts and those of personnel who were with her at the time, respectful and polite. She has no unmanageable trauma from her time as a POW.<br><br>
2) Although she is reluctant to speak on the matter, Dr. Grace has begun to show signs of questioning the decisions made by superiors. Her demeanor remains at all times professional when speaking of her ordeal, but there are times when she speaks of patients she treated or particular situations on the ground wherein there is a shift in tone, a dilation of the eyes. She is forthright on the matter of her own decisions -- she remained at Vandenburg to continue to care for Alliance personnel who could not be evacuated and takes pride in that choice.<br><br>
At this time, Dr. Grace is being released from care and cleared to resume her usual duties. It is my recommendation, however, that she be observed at regular intervals and any actions that deviate from the norm followed up. It is difficult to determine whether she has been compromised by her time as a POW or if she is merely reacting with empathy to the injuries and deaths she has witnessed. Because her job does not bring her into contact with classified materials, I do not believe full surveillance is required but there is an undercurrent to her responses that bears watching.
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