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Summarize the rise of scientific medicine and professionalism in the United States. Explain the fee-for-service basis of the health care system.
 
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Most low-income countries in Africa and South America are core nations that are dependent on peripheral nations for capital, have a great deal of industrialization, and have even patterns of urbanization.
 
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To make medicine in the United States more scientific and more profitable, the Carnegie Foundation (at the request of the American Medical Association and the forerunner of the Association of American Medical Colleges) commissioned an official study of medical education. The Flexner report that resulted from this study has been described as the catalyst of modern medical education. To conduct his study, Abraham Flexner met with the leading faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to develop a model of how medical education should take place; he next visited each of the 155 medical schools then in existence, comparing them with the model. As a result of the Flexner report, all but two of the African American medical schools then in existence were closed, and only one of the medical schools for women survived. As a result, white women and people of color were largely excluded from medical education for the first half of the twentieth century. The Flexner report did help professionalize medicine. When we compare post-Flexner medicine with the characteristics of professions, we find that it meets those characteristics: (1) abstract, specialized knowledge, (2) autonomy, (3) self-regulation,
(4) authority, and (5) altruism.

Throughout its history in the United States, medical care has been on a fee-for-service basis. Patients are billed individually for each service they receive, including treatment by doctors, laboratory work, hospital visits, prescriptions, and other health-related expenses. There are both good and bad sides to the fee-for-service approach. The good side is that in the true spirit of capitalism, coupled with the hard work and scholarship of many people, this approach has resulted in remarkable advances in medicine. The bad side of fee-for-service medicine is its inequality of distribution. In effect, the United States has a two-tier system of medical care. Those who can afford it are able to get good medical treatment.

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