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The Flexner Report, published in 1910, profoundly impacted the nature of health care in the United States.
Peter Deeley Jr, Founder of A Well Run Life, discusses how health care in the United States turned away from Naturopathic Medicine in favor of the Allopathic approach. He believes that the United States is deeply in need of a Health Care Revolution.
The new blog The Modern Revolution (https://themodernrevolution.com/2016/10/31/the-flexner-report-how-homeopathy-became-alternative-medicine/) aims to bring conversation about how to attend to Health and Wellness by comprehensively addressing people from their physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs.
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***The Flexner Report of 1910 permanently changed American medicine in the early twentieth century. Commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation, this report resulted in the elevation of allopathic medicine to being the standard form of medical education and practice in America, while putting homeopathy in the realm of what is now known as “alternative medicine.”
Although Abraham Flexner himself was an educator, not a physician, he was chosen to evaluate Canadian and American Medical Schools and create a report offering suggestions for improvement. The board overseeing the project felt that an educator, not a physician, would provide the insights needed to improve medical educational practices. The Flexner Report resulted in the embracing of scientific standards and a new system directly modeled after European medical practices of that era, especially those in Germany. The downside of this new standard, however, was that it created what the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine has called “an imbalance in the art and science of medicine.” While largely a success, if evaluating progress from a purely scientific point of view, the Flexner Report and its aftermath caused physicians to “lose their authenticity as trusted healers” and the practice of medicine subsequently “lost its soul”, according to the same Yale report. One-third of all American medical schools were closed as a direct result of Flexner’s evaluations. The report helped determine which schools could improve with additional funding, and those that would not benefit from having more financial resources. Those based in homeopathy were on the list of those that would be shut down. Lack of funding and support led to the closure of many schools that did not teach allopathic medicine. Homeopathy was not just given a backseat. It was effectively given an eviction notice. ***
Nutrition is the beginning of the philosophy underpinning this site. Concerns about food sourcing are also addressed in the blog.
A Well Run Life is a family business. Issues of family community, play and creativity are also addressed.
To address the importance of feeling connected, the blog includes Instagram accounts of the family pets: Gus and Winston (their English Cream Golden Retrievers.) As well as their Turtle: El Chapo the Turtle.
A Well Run Life’s Podcast is also linked through the blog to encourage people to develop and express their creativity (Available Here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-well-run-lif…).
And they include a link to the game Deeley’s children developed: Flickin’ Boogers: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flickin-boogers/id…
The Modern Revolution started with strong content. Deeley is looking for guest bloggers and can be reached through the site.
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