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By the end of World War II nurses outnumbered doctors, antibiotics were widely used, academic research centers had been established, and large pharmaceutical firms had been formed. The health sector of the economy expanded more in 50 years than it had over the last 3,000. Traditional solo doctoring morphed into complex organized networks of care. Rates of expansion peaked as national health systems funded by third-party insurance payments coalesced, creating sustainable structures and institutions that would remain in place for the next 50 years. However, the exuberant desire to fund rapid advances in medical technology waned as the realities of budgetary, biological, and social limits set in. |
