SDN Members don't see this ad. (About Ads) What do inpatient psychiatrists do all day? Do they interview each patient every day, or do they just function as the medical authority behind what the nurses and orderlies do throughout the day and only talk to patients on occasion? Don't know if this is taboo, but I recently watched "one flew over the cuckoo's nest", and it seemed like the psychiatrists had a pretty low profile around there, at least with respect to the patients perspective. Is that a very accurate depiction of an inpatient psychiatric environment?