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opening of 20th century - -doctors were solo practitioners -hospitals were single, independent entities, mostly non-profit -long term care for the elderly was largely home-based -pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing was a small business 1847 - founding of American Medical Association (AMA) AMA - -established standards for preliminary medical education for the degree of MD -Code of medical ethics -recommended use of anesthetic agents for surgery and obstetrics -noted the dangers of secret remedies (snake oil) and patent medicines -recommended that state governments register births, marriages, and deaths advances that made practice of medicine more successful in treating health problems - - improvements in surgery made during the civil war -application to medicine of advances in bacteriology by scientists such as louis pasteur provided the start for some of the largest names in the modern pharmaceutical industry : wyeth, pfizer, squibb - demand for therapeutics fueled by the civil war