Because different people come to Steve's articles, posts and the comments at different times, from time to time I repost a link to a short essay re: the 19th century figure Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss.
This interview with Cindy Eaton (and its sequelae) prompts a repost.
Physician Ignaz Semmelweiss endured incredible hostility, ridicule and vil…
Because different people come to Steve's articles, posts and the comments at different times, from time to time I repost a link to a short essay re: the 19th century figure Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss.
This interview with Cindy Eaton (and its sequelae) prompts a repost.
Physician Ignaz Semmelweiss endured incredible hostility, ridicule and vilification for the sin of being right about an easy measure for virtually eradicating puerperal ("childbed") fever which had been killing new mothers and infants at an appalling rate.
The vilification persisted EVEN THOUGH Dr. Semmelweiss's patients survived while huge numbers of other doctors' maternal patients succumbed.
As the writer observes in her essay "What Semmelweiss Taught Me": "The tendency to reject anything that challenges established views is a universal psychological phenomenon....It applies not just to science but to every sphere of human life."
Because different people come to Steve's articles, posts and the comments at different times, from time to time I repost a link to a short essay re: the 19th century figure Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss.
This interview with Cindy Eaton (and its sequelae) prompts a repost.
Physician Ignaz Semmelweiss endured incredible hostility, ridicule and vilification for the sin of being right about an easy measure for virtually eradicating puerperal ("childbed") fever which had been killing new mothers and infants at an appalling rate.
The vilification persisted EVEN THOUGH Dr. Semmelweiss's patients survived while huge numbers of other doctors' maternal patients succumbed.
As the writer observes in her essay "What Semmelweiss Taught Me": "The tendency to reject anything that challenges established views is a universal psychological phenomenon....It applies not just to science but to every sphere of human life."
Here's the link: https://tinyurl.com/mpk6rx9t
Exactly! Something as simple as washing your hands (especially after doing an autopsy) saved millions.