"For most of history, healing was guided by direct observation, traditional wisdom, and a blend of natural therapies drawn from plants, minerals, and food. That changed at the turn of the 20th century, when industrial and financial interests began reshaping medicine into a centralized, pharmaceutical-first system. What emerged was a model built not around patient health, but around patentable products, standardized protocols, and institutional control."
"*The Flexner Report laid the groundwork for corporate control - The push began with the Carnegie Foundation, which commissioned educator Abraham Flexner in 1908 to conduct a sweeping review of American medical schools. Though Flexner had no medical training, he visited every school in the country and produced a report that would become the blueprint for what would count as "real" medicine in the United States."
Innovation is often equated with progress and the dominant U.S. healthcare model is treated as the pinnacle of science. Chronic illness continues to rise and increasing numbers of Americans rely on daily medication to maintain health. Deeper forces have shaped healthcare by determining how doctors are trained, how treatments are chosen, and how foundations of care were built and persist. At the turn of the 20th century industrial and financial interests reshaped medicine into a centralized, pharmaceutical-first system. The Flexner Report in 1910 established standards that favored patentable products, standardized protocols, and institutional control, sidelining nonconforming healing systems.
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