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In the wake of industrialization, billionaires like J. D. Rockefeller and A. Carnegie had to deal with the socioeconomic benefits of their wealth. Both invested philanthropically in social projects aimed at promoting and preserving labor for the labor market, thus benefiting their own capitalist thinking in the long run. Among other things, they invested in science and research because the status of medical schools did not meet modern standards at the time. The goal was to bring the U.S. out of the shadow of the Europeans, to promote research and teaching in medicine, to remove competing types of medicine from mainstream thinking, and to establish the medicine we know today as the only recognized type of “healing practice.” This allowed allopathic medicine to take hold during the first decades of the 20th century, which was then divided into different specialties by the further development of technology. For example, only doctors with considerable experience could use an ophthalmoscope and accordingly interpret and treat changes in the ocular fundus. The result of this increasing specialization meant that medical practitioners dealt with smaller and smaller sections of the human body and integrated less and less of the whole person into their evaluations and treatment, but their salaries and standing among the population continued to rise. The mood among the various groups practicing medicine became increasingly aggressive. As more and more states, under the leadership of the AMA (American Medical Association), granted licenses to practice medicine only to physicians with medical degrees, chiropractors were sometimes thrown in jail on charges that they were practicing medicine without a license. This kind of aversion, and sometimes even aggressiveness, towards competing healing professions has persisted to this day. Chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy or clinically verified medical nutritional science are neither taught in medical school nor in residency training, yet many physicians make judgments (often negative) about the various groups and pass this opinion on to patients, even though they do not know what the individual treatment looks like or how it works. Only a few doctors, osteopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths, environmental physicians, and some therapists have the knowledge of these natural ways of influencing health, because they took it upon themselves to further their own education.