There have been great advances in medical and scientific knowledge in the ensuing century, and there have been myriad changes in health care in the past 20 years. Not all the changes are viewed necessarily as being effective, but as society is faced with the necessity of making changes that would allow health care to remain accessible to most of the nation's people, rather than watching it evolve to a luxury only for the most wealthy …
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…analyzing some of the changes in today's health care organization, in that he traces reasons for changes in perceptions of the medical community. He notes that doctors were little more than practitioners of some mystical applications involving items and procedures generally seen as suspect, and that the American people have evolved from a place where they gave the medical profession little consideration to that in which they cling to every pontification of their personal MDs.