Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

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Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Mariaberg Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gammertingen, Germany In 2012, The Application of Clinical Genetics enters its fifth year of publication. The journal has had a change of Editor-in-Chief: Dr David H Tegay stepped down and I was appointed to serve as the new Editor-in-Chief. As his...