1961

AMA changes position regarding osteopaths, permitting voluntary professional relationships between M.D.s and D.O.s and allowing accredited hospitals to have osteopaths on staff. Merger of California Medical Association and California Osteopathic Association, intended, inter alia, to reduce competition (Blackstone, 15). In 1965 Osteopaths included in Medicare, and in 1966, Defense Secretary McNamara brings them into the military (Whorton, 236-241).