How the Flexner Report Changed Medicine
The Flexner Report of 1910 revolutionized American medical education by enforcing scientific rigor and shutting down substandard schools, but it also eliminated alternative medicine, suppressed Black and women physicians, and entrenched systemic biases.
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While the Flexner Rep
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