What is the Accurate Definition of Organized Medicine?

Answer 1

A "true" definition of "Organized Medicine" is difficult to come by. In a layman's sense, I would say Organized Medicine is simply the organization of the medical profession as a whole. The cohesive structure of the medical profession as an organized group then becomes an "Interest Group" through which they can illicit a powerful organized voice and effect policies and procedures in both a social and "professional group" sense. It is very much like the concept of "Organized Labor" but involves medical "professionals" ("white collar) rather than laborers ("blue collar").