摘要: At the turn of last century, William Osler, Harvey Cushing, and other clinical leaders restructured hospital organization, established scientific research as foundation for practice, formalized education, set enforced high ethical personal standards performance among physicians nurses. Their era marked a turning point in health care delivery. Prior to 1900, seeking physician's help serious illness did little change course disease,1 but since that time life expectancy United States has almost doubled. A child born 1998 can expect . . .