al hospitals, and 1,000 comprehensive hospitals with a total capacity of 1.5 million beds. Both in-patient and out-patient care are provided. There are also 79,000 clinics offering primarily out-patient care, and there are 48,000 dental clinics. Most physicians and hospitals sell medicine directly to patients, but there are also over 36,000 pharmacies providing patients with the opportunity to purchase synthetic or herbal medication. The system, also has more than 191,400 physicians, 66,800 dentists, and 333,000 nurses. There are also more than 200,000 people licensed to practice massage, acupuncture, moxibustion, and other East Asian therapeutic methods. Chinese-style herbalists have been required to be licensed medical doctors since about 1900, and training was professionalized and, except for East Asian healers, was based on a biomedical model of disease. The practice of biomedicine was influenced
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