HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Health Care In Canada, Heroic Medicine, Flexner Report
27 Oct 2017
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In the 18th century, healthcare was given by family members or if case was more serious, family would choose from poorly paid and poorly respected practitioners. Irregular practitioners: medicine makers and apothecaries who sold (cid:498)drugs(cid:499: homeopaths (regular doctors competitions; opposite of allopathic medicine, they cure by likeness, barber surgeons (lower class, bone setters, apothecaries, eclectics: botanical medicine. Early days: humoral theory, heroic medicine, apprenticeships, plenty of competition. Created the college of physicians and surgeons of ontario. Took long for allopathic doctors to achieve professional status due to internal divides as some were more or differently trained than others, impeded united front. Report on state of americana and canadian medical education. Mds opposed medicare; preferred free-market model (cid:498)private for profit(cid:499) Private insurance companies + conservatives also opposed medicare. William lyon mackenzie king"s (cid:523)(cid:857)(cid:856)th pm of canada) proposal for universal healthcare rejected. Introduced by paul martin senior, federal minister of health and welfare.
