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Pain Outcomes Improved Following Psychiatric Assessment
ISSUE: JULY, 2009 New York—A new retrospective study of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has shown that the introduction of a psychiatric assessment to better assess candidacy for the procedure resulted in significantly improved treatment outcomes. read more & comment | ||||
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Stimulus Package Laden With Health Care–Related Provisions
ISSUE: JULY, 2009 A clearer picture is emerging regarding implications of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Signed by President Obama in February, the legislation includes a number of provisions related to medical care and medical providers. Indeed, the health care industry is among the principal beneficiaries of the massive $787 billion stimulus package. read more & comment | ||||
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A Care With Words: Exploring the Effects Of Clinician Comments on Patients
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009 Clinicians often speak to patients in ways that appear accurate and informative to them but are wholly insensitive, overly paternalistic and sometimes, frankly, wrong. read more & comment | ||||
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Study Supports Childhood Bipolar Diagnosis
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2009 Findings from a new prospective study show that pediatric bipolar disorder often continues into adulthood, adding weight to the once-debated argument that it is a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis. read more & comment (1 comments) | ||||
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Happy Customers Don’t Always Equal Healthy Patients
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2009 Dr. Treisman discusses why, in medicine, the "customer" is not always right. read more & comment (3 comments) | ||||
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Researchers Debate Universal Depression Screening In Cardiac Patients
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2009 Would universal depression screening in cardiac patients improve cardiac health or waste time and resources in an already strapped health care system? read more & comment | ||||
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Meta-analysis: Psychodynamic Outperforms Short-term Therapy
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2009 Although the past two decades have seen an upswing in evidence for other forms of treatment, psychoanalytically based therapy has been notoriously neglected. A study published in JAMA (2008;300:1551-1565) is among the first to consider the evidence base for its use. read more & comment | ||||
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Mending
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2009 Every clinician faces innumerable moments with patients in which the uncertainty of diagnosis, the technical requirements of healing or the extremes of aging bring challenges that seem beyond our capacity. read more & comment |
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