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In 1789, at the very birth of the United States, one of its founding fathers, Professor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and a founder of the medical college of the University of Pennsylvania, concluded his annual course with a lecture on the type of physician the new nation needed. He urged his students to be financially independent fanners who dealt honestly with their patients.
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Baker, R. (1995). Introduction. In: Baker, R. (eds) The Codification of Medical Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27444-7_1
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