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Physicians like to quote what Dr. Benjamin Rush reportedly said about the Constitution around 1787: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."  While some claim Dr. Rush said this at the [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, he did not attend that convention and did not sign the [[U.S. Constitution]] draft there.

Physicians like to quote what Dr. Benjamin Rush reportedly said about the Constitution around 1787: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."  While some claim Dr. Rush said this at the [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, he did not attend that convention and did not sign the [[U.S. Constitution]] draft there.

Dr. Daniel Brainard, shortly after to a small midwestern village called Chicago, established a new medical school there and named it the Rush Medical College.  Like Chicago itself, this medical school received its charter in March of 1837.

Dr. Daniel Brainard, shortly after to a small Midwestern village called Chicago, established a new medical school there and named it the Rush Medical College.  Like Chicago itself, this medical school received its charter in March of 1837.

 

 

[[Category:Americans|Rush, Benjamin]]

[[Category:Americans|Rush, Benjamin]]