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We know a good deal about the early history and development of our system for medical licensure in this country. Historian of medicine Richard Shryock and medical regulator Robert Derbyshire1 contributed short but valuable works in the 1960s. Sociologist Paul Starr addressed licensing as one part of his masterwork on the social development on the medical profession.2 Scholars...


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The rich history of medical regulation in the United States spans one hundred and fifty years. Since its centennial in 2012, the Federation of State Medical Boards has been collating and cataloging its various archival materials and holdings and seeking additional materials capturing the rich history of state medical boards.

In 2021, FSMB President Hank Chaudhry, DO...


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Earlier this summer my wife and I were traveling through Colorado and spent a couple nights in Trinidad. After a nice dinner at a Mexican restaurant in their downtown, we strolled the streets, window shopping and enjoying the mild weather. We ran across a placard inside one building that gave a bit of history to that site and Trinidad’s early days.

The placard relat...


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