(Other noninvasive modalities include radiation, sound waves, and psychological counseling)” (Alexandrou). Along with these approaches to noninvasive treatments, hearing aids, external splints, and casts are also very common. Patients may suffer from something a subtle as a broken leg in which a cast or splint is placed on their limb for eight to ten weeks. Or they may be one of the more unlucky patients that are dealing with life changing diseases like diabetes, cancer, or AIDS. With these illnesses, drugs are administered to help regulate the symptoms to make life as comfortable as possible for them.
The third type of allopathic medicine is the invasive treatments, or more commonly know as surgery. Originally, barbers and veterinarians were the ones to place people under the knife, but over the years an entirely new career field has blossomed from it. At one point in history, it was unimaginable for one to be able to crack open a person’s chest to save their life, but now it’s a routine procedure in hospitals all across the world. Oncology is heavily dependable on surgery and being able to perform exploratory surgery in order to attempt to remove masses from the patients before they become a true