WHERE IT ALL BEGAN - - - - ??

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..........The National Medical Convention of 1847 brought about the American Medical Association (AMA) into being. The AMA was to be the body most responsible for protecting and professionalising the status of allopathic (science-based treatment)doctors.The AMA not only drew the allopathic profession together, it also shielded them from lay criticism or any attempt at public participation in health care and medicine.The first code of practice laid down by the AMA stated clearly that " the patient's view was not to be entertained: ""The obedience of a patient to the prescriptions of his doctor should be prompt and implicit"Another rule in the code of ethics warned that patients should not permit their "own crude opinions" to influence attention to treatments given them by doctors"....As the AMA moved into the twentieth century, it sought and secured the backing of major industrial foundations which saw profit for themselves in the rapidly developing field of medical science........(extracted from 'Dirty Medicine'- J )kindly lent to me by Sheila ==============( 150 or more years on and not much has changed! ) L