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This reminds me of a 'better' New Yorker article from a while back: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20
by fossuser 10y ago
This reminds me of a 'better' New Yorker article from a while back: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas.
It talks about how anesthesia was quickly adopted, but scrubbing in before surgery to reduce infection was not.
Interesting mixture of cultural issues and how people behave.