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Vienna doctor used as a warning example of what happens when a medical truth threatens powerful colleagues.
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Semmelweis
Vienna doctor used as a warning example of what happens when a medical truth threatens powerful colleagues.
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The Semmelweis story functions as Jiang's model of institutional self-protection: evidence that saves lives can be suppressed when it would expose elite responsibility for prior harm.
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Semmelweis is used as evidence that nineteenth-century Vienna punished doctors whose truths threatened powerful professional reputations.
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"And only about 3 % were dying in the first clinic. So Ignat Simmelweis, he was appalled by this. And so he launched an..."
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"He basically had everyone wash their hands using a formula of water, chlorine, and lime. And we still use it today, exactly the same..."
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"And then Simmelweis of course responded by, yes, I understand that, but if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world..."
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"So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to..."
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"But if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world know about this, more women are going to die in childbirth...."
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"Okay? And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening, and he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure..."
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"We still use it today, exactly the same formula today. And so he tried this protocol, and it was a miracle, because after people..."
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