Spine and Holistic Health · Module 10 · The transformation of American medicine

American Medicine Lab

Slide through two hundred years and watch healers, schools, laws and payment systems appear and fade; predict how the curves move, then watch; sort the key terms and events; and try them in real life situations. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Landscape Explorer

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Regular (MD) schools Homeopathic Eclectic Women's colleges Schools for Black physicians (diamonds) Osteopathic Infection deaths Chronic disease deaths Life expectancy
Readouts for the chosen year
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A teaching model with rounded, approximate values. Counts of schools are approximate, early values (before about 1900) and the size of each healer group are illustrative, and the school map places dots near real cities but not at exact addresses. Shares of deaths count infections (pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, gut infections and others) and chronic disease (heart disease, cancer, stroke). Payment shares before 1960 are illustrative.