NPR: The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing And Briefly Saved Lives [View all]

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

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This is the story of a man whose ideas could have saved a lot of lives and spared countless numbers of women and newborns' feverish and agonizing deaths.

You'll notice I said "could have."

The year was 1846, and our would-be hero was a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis.
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I read about Semmelweis some time ago. Since then when I start thinking doctors know it all, I recall how he was ridiculed by his fellow physicians for his assertion that doctors should wash their hands between exams of patients.