Question

(1)In colonial America, anyone could become a physician merely by adopting the label. (2)There were no medical schools or medical societies to license or regulate what was a free-for-all trade. (3)Sometimes clergymen tried to provide medical care to their parishioners, and care of a sort was offered by all kinds of laypeople as well. (4)Documents of the time record a doctor who sold "tea, sugar, olives, grapes, anchovies, raisins, and prunes" along with medicinals. (5)Documents also tell of a woman who "Acts here in the Double Capacity of a Doctoress and Coffee Woman." (6) Training for medical practice, such as it was, was given by apprenticeship.

1. The passage suggests that in comparison to today, a medical practice in colonial America
a. must have been harder to establish.
b. probably required more study.
q c. was less likely to be full-time.​

Answer 1

C. was less likely to be full-time.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

c. was less likely to be full-time.

Step-by-step explanation:

The text presented above shows that being a doctor was something that anyone could be, since there were no medical schools and no organ that regulated this profession. Medicine was not considered a real profession, since in the text we can see that people who declared themselves to be doctors had other occupations such as being a merchant, working in the coffee plantation and even being a clergyman. This shows that, contrary to what we see today, the doctors of colonial America were not full-time doctors, since they needed to work with other things.