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PAGE  PAGE 13 Pioneer of Medical Model reform 　　SOCIAL development and techno- logical progress， as well as changes in the natural environment and lifestyles， have spawned a host of hitherto unknown chronic maladies and illnesses that erode human health. As existing mainstream medical models cannot meet the demands of contemporary disease prevention and treatment， medical and healthcare reforms are now imperative. 　　Professor Jiang Geli， the first medical practitioner in the People’s Liberation Army （PLA） with a PhD in Chinese acupuncture， has brought to bear his benevolent， sagacious and analytical reasoning in a thoroughgoing examination of current medical models. After years of research and practice， Professor Jiang has made a significant contribution to human medicine through his introduction of humanistic holistic medicine ?C the medical mode that meets the demands of 21st-century healthcare. 　　China Today （CT）： As an expert practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） with doctorates in medical science and philosophy， you have opened up a new realm of medical science by virtue of a humanistic holistic medical model perfected on the basis of your vast knowledge of human science， philosophy， deep insight into Chinese and Western medicine， and decades of clinical experience. What was your original intention in creating this new model？ 　　Jiang Geli： It was no sudden inspiration or epiphany. Rather， the humanistic holistic medical model evolved over the course of my life and three decades of experience as a medical practitioner. Diverse academic approaches， advances in healthcare， theoretical medical innovations， and technological developments over the past decade all laid the foundations on which to establish my theory. 　　Hardships during childhood sharpened my tenacity. I grew accustomed to assuming responsibility for my family， and later society as a whole， having witnessed the suffering of acquaintances whose illnesses could not be treated， d