HLST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Allopathic Medicine, Canadian Medical Association, Flexner Report

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Relied on physicians advice > used biomedical model (used to diagnose disease using biological factors only excluding social factors. Allopathic medicine developed during medical dominance era due to germ theory and educated middle-class people. Medical dominance competition lasted until late 19th century (1918) Factors contributing to medical dominance = flexner report, interactions between health professions, hospitals. Medical dominance modified to make stronger > establishment of canadian medical. Association; antibiotics established in the 1940s to treat and cure illnesses; increase in national health response (more doctors and hospitals) Medical dominance became institutionalized (accepted by all; normalized) > physician involvement (established national health grants program in 1948; hospital insurance and. Diagnostic services act in 1958); client and health providers communicate and see each other in hospital setting; emerge of paramedics; creation of hierarchal health care system; physicians became dominating buy 1960s. Professional role > limited relationships and conversations with everyone; kept it professional. Self-regulation > monitoring and controlling own behaviour.

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