Medical Institutions
Forerunner of today's hospitals & nursing homes
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Created increased reliance on the specialized skills of paid professionals
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First broad coverage health insurance in the U.S
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The major providers of dental care
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Forerunner of today's inpatient psychiatric facilities
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Played a critical role in galvanizing the medical profession & in protecting the interests of physicians
What is the American Medical Association?
Began a hospital insurance plan for teachers at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas
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Provides vision care
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Forerunner of today's free & charitable clinics where services are delivered mainly by trained volunteer staff to the poor the homeless and the uninsured
What is dispensary?
Widely-acclaimed report published by Abraham Flexner
What is the Flexner Report?
A term that has since become synonymous with any large-scale government-sponsored expansion of health insurance
What is socialized medicine?
Provides patients with mental care
What are psychologists?
Operated by local governments to isolate people who had contracted a contagious disease such as cholera smallpox typhoid or yellow fever
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Took the lead in further reforming medical education when it opened its medical school and Baltimore, Maryland in 1893
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Set the stage for vulnerable hospitals due to economic instability when they rely too much on philanthropy donations
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Treats patients with diseases or deformities of the feet
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