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Interesting. It seems physicians have a long history pompous bullshit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with_established_medical_opinion

• kingkawn 14y ago
  Which puts them in the beautiful company of the rest of humanity. Edit: Also Semmelweis was a badass.
  • einhverfr 14y ago
    We have this interesting idea that modern medicine is what is responsible for greatly extending life expectancy. Semmelweis's work largely showed at least in his day that for women it was the opposite (remember his work started with the question of why midwives had so much lower maternal mortality rates than physicians), and even today, it is probably a distant third behind year-round food supply and modern sanitation.