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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1895, Oregon again altered its medical licensing law by requiring all applicants to pass a licensing exam.  The 1895 amendment also expanded the Oregon Medical Board's power to revoke a physician's license for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, including any physician who was originally exempted in the first law.  Soon thereafter, the Oregon board immediately targeted physicians in the state.  The 1895 statute specified the grounds for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct:  Taking part in a criminal abortion, employing “cappers” and “steerers,” obtaining a fee and claiming the ability to cure an incurable disease or condition, betraying a professional secret, using untruthful or improbable statements in advertisements, a conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude and habitual intemperance, and advertising medicines claiming to regulate the monthly periods of women.<ref><i>Oregon Laws</i>, 1895, 61-65, sec. 6.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1895, Oregon again altered its medical licensing law by requiring all applicants to pass a licensing exam.  The 1895 amendment also expanded the Oregon Medical Board's power to revoke a physician's license for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, including any physician who was originally exempted in the first law.  Soon thereafter, the Oregon board immediately targeted physicians in the state.  The 1895 statute specified the grounds for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct:  Taking part in a criminal abortion, employing “cappers” and “steerers,” obtaining a fee and claiming the ability to cure an incurable disease or condition, betraying a professional secret, using untruthful or improbable statements in advertisements, a conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude and habitual intemperance, and advertising medicines claiming to regulate the monthly periods of women.<ref><i>Oregon Laws</i>, 1895, 61-65, sec. 6.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1895, Oregon again altered its medical licensing law by requiring all applicants to pass a licensing exam.  The 1895 amendment also expanded the Oregon Medical Board's power to revoke a physician's license for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, including any physician who was originally exempted in the first law.  Soon thereafter, the Oregon board immediately targeted physicians in the state.  The 1895 statute specified the grounds for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct:  Taking part in a criminal abortion, employing “cappers” and “steerers,” obtaining a fee and claiming the ability to cure an incurable disease or condition, betraying a professional secret, using untruthful or improbable statements in advertisements, a conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude and habitual intemperance, and advertising medicines claiming to regulate the monthly periods of women.<ref><i>Oregon Laws</i>, 1895, 61-65, sec. 6.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1895, Oregon again altered its medical licensing law by requiring all applicants to pass a licensing exam.  The 1895 amendment also expanded the Oregon Medical Board's power to revoke a physician's license for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, including any physician who was originally exempted in the first law.  Soon thereafter, the Oregon board immediately targeted physicians in the state.  The 1895 statute specified the grounds for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct:  Taking part in a criminal abortion, employing “cappers” and “steerers,” obtaining a fee and claiming the ability to cure an incurable disease or condition, betraying a professional secret, using untruthful or improbable statements in advertisements, a conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude and habitual intemperance, and advertising medicines claiming to regulate the monthly periods of women.<ref><i>Oregon Laws</i>, 1895, 61-65, sec. 6.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The bill passed and authorized creating a medical licensing board and established specific criteria to receive an Oregon medical license.  The medical board consisted of three members who had the power to approve three separate types of licenses that would permit medicine.  First, individuals who could establish that they received a diploma or license from a legally chartered institution of good standing could qualify.  Second, the board could issue licenses to anyone, regardless of educational background, by administering a test that evaluated the potential practitioner's qualifications.  Finally, doctors and surgeons already practicing in Oregon at the time the act was passed could simply register with the office of the county clerk sixty days after the act’s approval and continue their practices.<ref><i>Oregon Sessions Law</i>, “An Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine,” 1891, section 3.</ref> Anyone who practiced medicine in violation of this act was guilty of a misdemeanor.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The bill passed and authorized creating a medical licensing board and established specific criteria to receive an Oregon medical license.  The medical board consisted of three members who had the power to approve three separate types of licenses that would permit medicine.  First, individuals who could establish that they received a diploma or license from a legally chartered institution of good standing could qualify.  Second, the board could issue licenses to anyone, regardless of educational background, by administering a test that evaluated the potential practitioner's qualifications.  Finally, doctors and surgeons already practicing in Oregon at the time the act was passed could simply register with the office of the county clerk sixty days after the act’s approval and continue their practices.<ref><i>Oregon Sessions Law</i>, “An Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine,” 1891, section 3.</ref> Anyone who practiced medicine in violation of this act was guilty of a misdemeanor.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To limit opposition and debate within the medical community, the legislative committee refused to draft a bill “until shortly before it was sent to the legislature.”  Strong wanted to avoid telling members specifically what type of medical bill they were planning to propose.  After receiving the fundraising solicitation, several physicians who had been practicing in Oregon “ten, fifteen or twenty years without a diploma, began to ask, ‘What kind of bill are you going to pass?  Are you going to shut us out?”  Strong evaded this question by sending postcards to any members who requested information about the bill; the cards stated that “the Committee ha[s] not as of yet drafted a bill.  We have substantially agreed that a bill must be a reasonable in all its provisions; and it has proposed to not disturb the present relations of anyone practicing medicine and surgery at the time the bill becomes a law.”<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889):  205-206.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To limit opposition and debate within the medical community, the legislative committee refused to draft a bill “until shortly before it was sent to the legislature.”  Strong wanted to avoid telling members specifically what type of medical bill they were planning to propose.  After receiving the fundraising solicitation, several physicians who had been practicing in Oregon “ten, fifteen or twenty years without a diploma, began to ask, ‘What kind of bill are you going to pass?  Are you going to shut us out?”  Strong evaded this question by sending postcards to any members who requested information about the bill; the cards stated that “the Committee ha[s] not as of yet drafted a bill.  We have substantially agreed that a bill must be a reasonable in all its provisions; and it has proposed to not disturb the present relations of anyone practicing medicine and surgery at the time the bill becomes a law.”<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889):  205-206.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legislative committee approached legislator and Regular physician, Dr. James V. Pope, to introduce the Oregon association’s bill in the House.  Pope studied medicine in St. Louis and worked as a physician during the Civil War, but he was not a medical school graduate.<ref>O. Larsell, <i>The Doctor in Oregon: A Medical History</i> (Portland, Oregon State Historical Society 1947), 210.</ref> After Pope introduced the bill, he abruptly threatened to scuttle it.  Strong wrote, “[N]ow came to the point to find out where the shoe pinched with Dr. Pope; but I knew it pinched somewhere and surmised that probably he wanted the credit of introducing and passing the Medical Bill, and wanted it to be known as Pope’s bill.”  Strong also stated that rumors had spread in the legislature that the OSMA raised a lot of money to smooth passage of the bill.<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889): 206.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legislative committee approached legislator and Regular physician, Dr. James V. Pope, to introduce the Oregon association’s bill in the House.  Pope studied medicine in St. Louis and worked as a physician during the Civil War, but he was not a medical school graduate.<ref>O. Larsell, <i>The Doctor in Oregon: A Medical History</i> (Portland, Oregon State Historical Society 1947), 210.</ref> After Pope introduced the bill, he abruptly threatened to scuttle it.  Strong wrote, “[N]ow came to the point to find out where the shoe pinched with Dr. Pope; but I knew it pinched somewhere and surmised that probably he wanted the credit of introducing and passing the Medical Bill, and wanted it to be known as Pope’s bill.”  Strong also stated that rumors had spread in the legislature that the OSMA raised a lot of money to smooth passage of the bill.<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889): 206.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After almost fifteen years of failure, the OSMA finally succeeded in passing a regulatory act by paying a two-hundred dollar bribe from the “corruption fund” to a legislator who then passed an amendment to protect his own medical practice.  Additionally, the remaining one-hundred-and-five dollars were distributed to other legislators on Pope’s suggestion.  Despite Pope’s self-dealing, his modifications to the bill made it more palatable to Oregon physicians who were practicing without diplomas.  Pope’s concerns were similar to other physicians in the state, and those doctors would have opposed the 1889 bill without those changes.  The conclusion that the three-hundred-five dollars raised by the association was intended for bribes is unavoidable.  It is not surprising that Strong was cagey about explaining what the money was for.  Strong also acknowledged that even with Pope’s help and the OSMA members’ money, getting the bill passed was extremely difficult; “[i]f they knew the way that committee worked, the difficulties that arose, and the pressure brought to bear, the thumb screws we used here and there of one kind or another.”<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889): 208.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After almost fifteen years of failure, the OSMA finally succeeded in passing a regulatory act by paying a two-hundred dollar bribe from the “corruption fund” to a legislator who then passed an amendment to protect his own medical practice.  Additionally, the remaining one-hundred-and-five dollars were distributed to other legislators on Pope’s suggestion.  Despite Pope’s self-dealing, his modifications to the bill made it more palatable to Oregon physicians who were practicing without diplomas.  Pope’s concerns were similar to other physicians in the state, and those doctors would have opposed the 1889 bill without those changes.  The conclusion that the three-hundred-five dollars raised by the association was intended for bribes is unavoidable.  It is not surprising that Strong was cagey about explaining what the money was for.  Strong also acknowledged that even with Pope’s help and the OSMA members’ money, getting the bill passed was extremely difficult; “[i]f they knew the way that committee worked, the difficulties that arose, and the pressure brought to bear, the thumb screws we used here and there of one kind or another.”<ref><i>Proceedings Sixteenth Annual Meeting</i> (1889): 208.</ref></div></td></tr>
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