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To the Editor: The otherwise excellent article by Blumenthal and Hsiao (Sept. 15 issue)¹ overlooks three critical points regarding Western medicine in China. First, institutions such as ours serve as points of introduction for concepts such as infection control, pain management, peer review, palliative care, evidence-based medicine, quality control, and even primary care — this last being arguably the most cost-effective way of dealing with emerging diseases of industrialization and urbanization, as documented in the same issue of the Journal.² I can personally vouch for ample experiences of this phenomenon during the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic, and it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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