Mayo Clinic: Revolutionizing Medicine Patient Care
Home Care
Patient receiving care at home. 1925. Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia
Doctors conducted home visits
to diagnose conditions, suggest treatments and perform surgeries.
"One hundred years ago, in 1908, health care was virtually unregulated and health insurance, nonexistent. Physicians practiced and treated patients in their homes. The few hospitals that existed provided minimal therapeutic care. Both physicians and hospitals were unregulated." AMA Journal of Ethics, May 2008.
Home medicine 1901. NJ.com
Doctors treated a wide variety of illnesses without laboratory equipment, vaccines,
or potent medicines. Treatment was not based on scientific research.