A Noble Profession Tries to Get Paid: The Historical Roots of a Modern Healthcare Crisis

Podcast: Cut & Tell · Hippocratic Collective

Opublikowano: 2026-08-20

This is Episode 2 of our series on health policy and economics for doctors! This episode is about laying the historical groundwork for the rest of this season, because so many of our modern healthcare problems can be traced back to decisions made WAY in the past that set us on this course. In this episode, Dr. Liz Malphrus digs into the 19th-century roots of American medicine — from home-based house calls and bartered payments to the founding of the American Medical Association in 1847 — to explain how doctors chose to model their profession after clergy instead of lawyers, and why that choi...