Bruce H. Robinson, MD, FACS, MSOM (Hon) lives in Fort Lauderdale Florida. He is a professor and the Associate Dean of the Montserrat Medical College in nearby Miami and is also a professor at the Atlantic College of Oriental Medicine in Fort Lauderdale. Dr. Robinson was the president of AIMC Berkeley, an acupuncture college located in the San Francisco Bay area, from 2007 to 2009. He is the author of two textbooks on the topic of integrating Western Medicine and Oriental Medicine: Biomedicine: A Textbook for Practitioners of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Blue Poppy Press (2007), and Western Physical Exam Skills for Practitioners of Asian Medicine, Blue Poppy Press (2009). Both of these textbooks are available at www.bluepoppy.com and also at www.amazon.com.
Dr. Robinson has created a number of distance learning modules on various topics of western biomedicine available through Blue Poppy Press at www.bluepoppy.com. A board certified general surgeon, he practiced medicine and surgery for 30 years, treating over 80,000 patients.
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In the past five years of my clinical practice, I have seen an astonishing upsurge in the chronic use of proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for the gastrointestinal issue diagnosed by allopathic medicine as GERD. It is not uncommon to encounter patients taking these prescriptions for five-plus years.
Working with chronically ill patients entails acknowledging the reality that not all patients will survive their diagnosis. Chinese medicine and acupuncture play a crucial role in palliative and end-of-life care, addressing medication and disease side effects, alleviating pain associated with death, reducing anxiety and stress, and helping patients find peace during the dying process.
