Three Key Points that Learned from this Week's Reading

Allopathic medicine
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Three key points that learned from this week's reading
Allopathic medicine is a practice based on a theory that any symptoms should be treated by the use of substances that can suppress the symptoms. The main advantage of this method is the focus on treating symptoms and precisely diagnosing their real causes. Diagnostic tests are used in this conventional medicine to reveal the presence of any disease way before the patient experiences acute symptoms. The conventional medicine main tools are the drugs, surgery as well as radiations (Ngalamulume, 2012).They focus on the individual parts that are not in their functional state instead of the whole body. This is in contrast to the alternative medicine for instance the traditional Chinese medicine that focuses mainly on preventing the diseases as well as maintaining good health mainly by a change in lifestyle for instance proper diet, exercises, and also the use of nutritional supplements. The two has been used interchangeably in the wake of developments in the medicine field (Enrichmentjournal.ag.org, 2015).
To my surprise allopathic medicine has been generating the high revenue returns for the traditional Chinese medicine hospitals more than they did for the general hospitals .These revenue are critical for the survival of the traditional hospitals in china as well as a major source of their finances. These traditio...