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allopathic medicine


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The prevailing form of conventional or orthodox medical practice, based as far as feasible on formally arrived-at diagnostic categories of conditions that are treated on the basis of best available evidence for efficacy of therapeutic measures. Early in the 21st century it is increasingly in transition into evidence-based medicine.


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