Flexner

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Abraham Flexner, Frederick Gates, John D. Rockefeller, William Welch (founding dean at Hopkins), Johns Hopkins University, Rockefeller Institute, Henry Pritchett (head of the Carnegie Foundation).

The Flexner Report of 1910 transformed the nature and process of medical education in America with a resulting elimination of proprietary schools and the establishment of the biomedical model as the gold standard of medical training.

In other words, the Flexner Report was responsible for destroying traditional healing methods in favour of pharmakia sorcery.