Cardiac surgery is performed on hundreds of thousands of patients a year, and can have an important beneficial impact on the outcomes of patients with coronary and valvular heart diseases. Despite the favorable recovery of most patients, some will have their post-operative period interrupted by the development of atrial fibrillation, with a...

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The book remains essential reading for doctors taking the Membership examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, but also...

The author, Dr. Liu Zheng-cai, helps clarify what the specifically Daoist contributions to the practice of acupuncture actually are. Included in this book are numerous short biographies of Daoist physicians, detailed explanations on the clinical use of such chrono-acupuncture techniques as midday/midnight point selection and the magic turtle...

This book is the sixth volume in this series on the clinical practice of medicine. In it, students and practitioners will find the disease causes and mechanisms, patterns, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal treatment of three dozen or more diseases affecting the urogenital system and lower gastrointestinal tract. It includes an amazingly wide...