6/18/10 This was a fairly uneventful day, so I will include two days into this blog entry. Also, the days earlier this week before this entry were mainly centered on our classes. The lectures we had included China’s medical care system and its reform, causes of disease and diagnosis, HIV/AIDS prevention, Chinese medicine theory and meridians, introduction to TCM herbal medicine, and Chinese birth control policy. If you have any questions about these topics, feel free to ask! Today we signed up for departments from which we would shadow a doctor. I signed up for Internal Medicine along with Grayson and Kat. The other departments were Massage, Acupuncture, and Pediatrics. Massage and Acupuncture sounded interesting to me as well, but I thought Internal Medicine would be interesting to see from a TCM point of view. It
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