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Article: Allied health care - Past, present and future.(Business)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2005
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Byline: Rachel Baruch Yackley
The Past
It has only been about 60 years since the term "allied health" was coined. Not necessarily intended to introduce new occupations, this term was initiated in order to identify a large body of health-related personnel working in the healthcare system. Individual occupations now under the allied health umbrella certainly existed before this time, such as that of Medical Laboratory Technician, which was developed in the 1920s.
For those interested in assisting, facilitating and complimenting the work of physicians and other specialists, allied health care professions held, and continue to hold much appeal, as ...