The Semmelweis Reflex (concept)
Source
- I think it was Cautionary Tales
Key Idea
Story
- Ignaz Semmelweiss was a Hungarian physician
- He discovered in 1847 that hospital mortality fell when doctors disinfected their hands with a chlorine solution
- His ideas were rejected because of non-scientific resistance and things that had to do more with ego
- “gentleman’s hands cannot transmit disease”