Stanley M. Zagorski, MD, MAJ, MC, USA, Jay M. Earles, PsyD, LTC, MS, USA, Nakizito Kazigo, MD, CPT, MC, USA, Jason B. de Leeuw, PhD, MAJ, MS, USA, and Mathew Chung, MD, LTC, MC, USA
MAJ Zagorski is a surgeon at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, HI and a fellow in the American College of Surgery. LTC Earles is a clinical health psychologist at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta, GA. CPT Kazigo is a surgeon, MAJ de Leeuw is a psychologist, and LTC Chung is a surgeon, all at TAMC.
Providing psychological evaluations to patients interested in bariatric surgery is a common practice—but one for which clear guidelines are unavailable. These investigators surveyed a group of U.S. Army surgeons and psychologists about what they want from such evaluations and how they use them.