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What could Americans expect when they got to the physician’s office? Radio programs, movies, television shows, magazine and newspapers articles, and advertisements were among the forms of mass media that told Americans what they might encounter in their visit.

This article was published in Hygeia, the American Medical Association’s magazine for lay readers, and was typical of the advice offered in that magazine.  

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