After abdominal surgery, the bowel tends to stop working for a while. Nothing moves, nothing passes, eating is uncomfortable or impossible, and everyone waits. Surgeons call it postoperative ileus, and it is one of the main reasons a person stays in the hospital longer than the operation itself required. There is no reliably effective drug for it. That is the setting for a new randomized trial testing electroacupuncture [1], and it is a setting where I have a professional sta

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