Last week it was announced that the "Chinese Medicine and Culture" is to be indexed in ESCI, and become discoverable on the Web of Science. CMC will receive its first Impact Factor (IF) in 2025, and all articles published after 2022 will be counted towards the author's h-index. --- I have been involved with CMC since its launch in 2018, having being appointed as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member from the very beginning. I think this is a great achievement for Chinese Medicine. The CMC is the first TCM Humanities publication to achieve such a status. - In March, Charlie Buck and I were guest editors in chief for a historical issue on the global cross cultural integration of TCM in the west, which made an enormous impact on the TCM world in China and abroad.
I t was back in 2018, and I was still working at the Sports Trauma Hospital in Guangzhou, China. That day, a young gentleman comes to the clinic with a martial arts injury. Physical examination/palpation of the limb and also an x-ray revealed a fractured ulna. Typically, in these types of situations, the standard of care at the hospital, required that the patient moves to the inpatient department for further evaluation, processing and to await surgery. During the surgery, the specialist would open a small incision, realign the bone and then secure it in place with pins or metal implants. However, this approach is not always necessary. In the not-so-distant past, for a simple fracture of the ulna with less than 50% displacement and less than 10% angulation, a simple cast and plenty of rest would be sufficient. In any case, the patient outright refused surgery and casting. He simply asked that we use traditional bone-setting to realign the bone, and then secure it in place with wooden s
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