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On This Day In Alabama History: State Medical Association Organized

| December 2, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

December 1, 1847: The Medical Association of the State of Alabama was organized on this day in 1847 after a meeting of 21 physicians at the Waverly House in Mobile. The meeting was aimed at addressing concerns about a state medical licensure law passed in 1823. Alabama’s licensing standards were very lax, and many physicians were concerned about the level of skill possessed by some licensed doctors in the state. Members of the Alabama Medical Society (AMS), a local Selma organization, met and decided to call a statewide meeting of doctors. AMS secretary Dr. Albert Gallatin Mabry sent a letter to the president of the Mobile Medical Society to determine its members’ interest in such a meeting. Mabry called for the creation of a state medical society, modeled on those in Mississippi and Virginia, that could develop and enforce a code of ethics and work to improve medical education in the state.

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