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Chronic Abdominal Pain. An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management; Editor: Kapural Leonardo, New York, Springer; 2015; pp 261 ISBN 978-1-4939-1991-8. Obtainable from www.amazon.com Acupuncture through Zen. Somewhere in the alphabet soup of published therapies for abdominal pain might be some evidence-based treatments. Pain that could be organic or functional, cancer-related or non-cancer-related, with attendant primary, secondary, or tertiary gain, ranging in severity from no impairment to catastrophic disability, with a niche in virtually every medical specialty. Dr. Kapural has coordinated opinions in this volume from more than 60 clinical thought leaders in the field. They are mostly from the United States, but 15 are from overseas centers. They have sought to define the pathophysiology and management of abdominal pain of all types in this volume. Dr. Kapural himself is a highly respected and accomplished clinician and researcher, with some 70 papers retrieved with Ovid/PubMed searches. Many of these papers refer to his own particular interests in interventional management of spinal and abdominal pain. He states this preference clearly in the preface, believing there is …