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The American Medical Association reorganizes itself.

1901

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The American Medical Association (AMA) reorganizes as a national organization of state and local associations. Membership will increase from about 8,000 physicians in 1900 to 70,000 in 1910, which will represent half the physicians in the country. This period marks the beginning of "organized medicine."