title: What future for traditional Chinese medicine outside China?
abstract: In certain countries of east and south-east Asia, traditional Chinese medicine continues to be used by many people. However, the pattern of use favours the advance of the drug-retailing side of this sector rather than medical care, and there is consequently some concern about the professional status of practitioners in the long term.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore.
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Ooi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008296:Malaysia; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors