Status of Pharmacologic Management of Gastroparesis: 2014
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PRACTICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY • SEPTEMBER 2014 Richard W. McCallum, M.D., Professor and Founding Chair of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Director, Center for Neurogastroenterology and GI Motility. Joseph Sunny, Jr., M.D., Senior Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, TX GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY AND FUNCTIONAL BOWEL DISORDERS, SERIES #1
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