PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - Packer, Douglas A. ED - Camm, John TI - Atrial Fibrillation Management: A Shifting Paradigm DP - 2005 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 8--9 VI - 5 IP - 1 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/5/1/8.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/5/1/8.full AB - Answering the question posed by his session (“Curing AF: Ablation or Surgery—Who and Why?), professor Douglas A. Packer, MD, co-director of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, electrophysiology laboratory said, “Because the drugs don't work all the time.”