The History of Medicine Part 12: Flexner and African Americans

Two pages of the Flexner Report condemned African American medial providers, hospitals, and patients to decades of struggle.  Relying on the AMA's medical-racial script, and playing into the atmosphere of Progressive eugenics, Flexner's chapter devoted to the African American medical situation flowed from what united white orthodox providers and fed the corporate impetus that would finance the new health care system.  Essentially, Flexner sought to close all but two African American medical schools, condemn graduates from those schools to being sanitation workers who would assure that African Americans don't spread disease to whites, and deflect corporate funding elsewhere.  The results were disastrous.