Insurance: What Our Patients Need to Know

Refractive surgery: what patients need to know.

OBJECTIVE Most procedures to treat refractive error are based on laser surgery, but other techniques are available. We review the relative advantages and the risk associated with the different surgical options. AREAS OF AGREEMENT Laser refractive surgery is now a safe and effective alternative to glasses or contact lenses. AREAS OF CONTROVERSY Because refractive surgery is an area of rapidl...

[What our patients want and need to know about generalized anxiety disorder].

Persons with generalized anxiety disorder often do not seek treatment, and if they do, it is more often for the somatic symptoms (muscle tension, insomnia) or for a secondary depression than because of the cardinal feature of generalized anxiety disorder: worry. The worry aspect becomes apparent when the patient is proposed to try anxiolytic medication. The physician will then need to be prepar...

What Neurosurgeons Need to Know

“The results of the three parts of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) were published within the 18 months.” In November 2006, the reports of the randomized, controlled trial (RCT) and observational cohort study of herniated lumbar disc (HLD) were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.8,9 In May 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results...

The World Beyond Our Borders What Might Our Students Need to Know About It?

I have been asked by APA to discuss the relevance of the rest of the world to American psychology students. This assignment grows out of a new wave of concern about America's place in the world. Economic and political events of the 1970s have increased the conviction in many circles that American college students are not obtaining a realistic picture of their place in the world from their colle...

What do we know? What do we need to know?