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What’s in His Head?

by | Jun 23, 2010 | Inside History

How much schooling did frontier docs really have?
In his 1910 treatise, Medical Education in the United States and Canada, Mr. Abraham Flexner reported the following startling words to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: “...very seldom, under existing conditions, does a patient receive the best aid which it is possible to give him in the present state of medicine.... For twenty five years past there h


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