“Just how nonprofessionalized, unregulated and fractious an enterprise medicine was in Buchanan’s time is difficult to imagine now. The chief qualification for practicing it was success in getting other people to call you ‘Doctor.’ The requirements for opening a medical school were equally rigorous.” writes Scott McLemee in his review of David Alan Johnson’s Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Read the review at Inside Higher Ed

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