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65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Hospitals and Medicine in the 20th Century

Before 1900, there were basically two kinds of patients who would go to hospitals. The working port was single people who lived in a boarding house and had no one to care for them. Charity organizations opened hospitals to provide them with warmth, nursing care,. And that started to happen maybe around the 1870s or so.

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