How Industrialists Monopolized Modern Medicine To Hoard Wealth and Power in the 20th Century
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The transfer of knowledge across generations was completely severed. And to enforce this newly created monopoly, these interests utilised the American Medical Association, the AMA. Which is crazy to think about now, right today, we think of the AMA as the ultimate. Objective authority on health, but its history in the early 20th century is incredibly aggressive. The AMA's leadership during this era is very telling. You have figures like George H Simmons and Morris Fishbein. Fish places such a wild character in all this. He really is. He's fascinating. He served as the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA. For decades and became the literal face of American medicine. Yet he later testified under oath that he had never practised medicine a day in his life.
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