History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: General Medical Services, Family Medicine, Fiduciary

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

Document Summary

When it comes to cutting people"s body, giving drugs, only certain will be allowed to do it. Sources of info on general practice: community records, reports from groups, biographies, and hospital records. Infectious diseases, deliveries, and small operations (e. g. , teeth extractions, sutures, dislocations) Rarely paid in full, very little time off. Kept pace with latest developments (anesthesia, antiseptic, thermometers) In the early 19th century: physician- surgeons: by the 1900s: general practitioners, researchers or professors. Now the college of family physicians of canada: royal college of physicians and surgeons (can. ) founded in 1920, which oversees 61 medical specializations. Stands as a second version, involved in the monopoly. Stigma associated with general practice (changed name to family. Family doctors resisted the colleges attempt to subsume them which gave them sort of an advantage: attempt made on the part of the royal college to assimilate gps.