Lecture Ten: Specialization and Compensation
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Lecture Ten for HIST 30626
American Medical Reform
- 1844-1846: AMA, allopaths only need apply
- Mid-century medical incomes: ~$600/year -- a skilled trade
- 1890: American Association of Medical Colleges
- 1901: AMA Reform, inclusion of homeopaths, eclectics, county, state medical societies
- 1888: Dent v. West Virginia
- 1893: Foundations
- Johns Hopkins Medical School
- Rockefeller General Education Board (GEB) 2/3 to 7 schools
- Carnegie Flexner Report #4 of 1910
Results of Reform
- The new sects: Chiropractic, osteopathy, Christian Science
- Decline in medical supply
- 1906: 161 medical schools
- 1910: 131 medical schools
- 1915: 95 medical schools
- 1922: 81 medical schools
Specialization: "Practice Limited 100% to..."
- Old Specialities (c. 1800)
- Physician
- Surgeon
- Middle Specialities (c. 1850, from Germany)
- Man midwife
- ophthalmologist (1916)
- ear and throat (1924)
- dentist
- mad doctor
- neurologist
- veneralogist
- New Specialities (c. 1900)
- Technology-related: clinical pathologist, radiologist, anesthesiologist
- Society-related: pediatrician, psychiatry, psychology
- Science-related: varieties of surgery, urology, podiatry
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