Benjamin Rush was a man of many trades. He was a well-accomplished individual that made a major impact as a politician, helped develop medicine, hospitals, and psychiatry that would impact our history. He authored essays, textbooks, set up colleges, became a professor and had a key role in developing American medicine. Rush spent years studying medicine in Europe, and due to his experience and years of study in medicine he plays a significant role in fighting for the proper health care for people that has impacted our country tremendously. Not only was
Benjamin Rush known for influencing our medical field, but he also made an impact on our government, and American history that now students learn world widely.
After receiving his medical degree in 1768,
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Taking part in psychiatry, Rush dove into helping “insane” patients of his time, which was labeled to those who needed mental help. Rush believed that helping patients that were
mentally ill were just as important as patients who were physically ill. At the Pennsylvania
Hospital he was an advocate for making changes on psychiatric treatment. This would play in a major change and effect on physicians' view on mental and physical well-being of someone.
Mental health till this very day plays a huge role in America, and how people need help, and that it is ok to seek out proper help when needed. Taking such a risky move towards patients who needed mental help, studying them, and helping them, promoted Rush to earn his title as the
Father of American Psychiatry. Helping others was always a form of passion of Benjamin Rush.
From the start of his career, becoming a physician and starting his own practice, seeking help to the poor or rich was important to him throughout his career. To continue helping the poor, and to strive for them to receive proper health care, he helped establish the Philadelphia