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a cottage industry
Engaged in by physicians and their assistants, largely
students (apprentices) - Correct Answer ✅At the beginning
of the 20th century, health care in the United States was
predominantly:
When the 20th century opened: - Correct Answer ✅-
Doctors were mostly solo practitioners
-Hospitals were single, independent entities, mostly non-
profit
History of Incremental Change: 1900-2010 - Correct Answer
✅Long-term care for the elderly was largely home-based
Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing was small
business
Health care was a minor part of the economy
1847- 19th century - Correct Answer ✅Founding of the
American Medical Association (AMA)
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Founding of the American Medical Association (AMA) -
Correct Answer ✅Established standards for preliminary
medical education for the degree of MD
Code of medical ethics
Recommended use of anesthetic agents for surgery and
obstetrics
Noted the dangers of secret remedies (snake oil) and patent
medicines
Recommended that state governments register births,
marriages, and deaths
(snake oil) - Correct Answer ✅oted the dangers of secret
remedies (_____) and patent medicines
-Improvements in surgery made during the Civil War (first
conflict in which the Army dug toilets downstream from
army's campsite)
-Application to medicine of advances in bacteriology by
scientists such as Louis Pasteur Affected the physician's
ability to control infectious diseases - the leading causes of
death at that time - Correct Answer ✅Advances that made
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practice of medicine more successful in treating health
problems
Improvements in surgery made during the Civil War - Correct
Answer ✅first conflict in which the Army dug toilets
downstream from army's campsite)
Application to medicine of advances in bacteriology by
scientists such as Louis Pasteur - Correct Answer ✅Affected
the physician's ability to control infectious diseases - the
leading causes of death at that time
Demand for therapeutics fueled by the Civil War - Correct
Answer ✅Provided the start for some of the largest names in
the modern pharmaceutical industry: Wyeth, Pfizer, and
Squibb
Wyeth, Pfizer, and Squibb - Correct Answer ✅Provided the
start for some of the largest names in the modern
pharmaceutical industry:
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Founding of the U.S. Nursing Corps - Correct Answer
✅________in 1861 and the idea of professional nursing and its
importance to medical care
Development of the Ambulance Corps during the Civil War -
Correct Answer ✅Created ambulance-to-emergency room
system we know today
Established hierarchy of treatment stations to types of
hospital facilities
1899 - Correct Answer ✅Founding of Association of Hospital
Superintendents in_____
Became the American Hospital Association (AHA)
Adoption of the Bertillon or International List of Causes of
Death in 1900 - Correct Answer ✅Predecessor of the
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Brought some standards and criteria in the study of diseases
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