An aspect of this that is seldom remembered is that Semmelweiss was a HUGE jerk, which didn't help adoption. Instead of telling or showing other doctors how thi

An aspect of this that is seldom remembered is that Semmelweiss was a HUGE jerk, which didn't help adoption. Instead of telling or showing other doctors how things could be better, he called them barbarian murderers for not washing their hands. It was a decade before he'd even have a civil conversation about it, or publish for peer review. There's a lesson in that...sometimes being right isn't enough on it's own.