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This is a time to reflect on what what we have learned, what we still have to learn, what has been done well and what has not been done well. History tells us that sometimes the most difficult thing to see is that which is in front of our own eyes.
The story of Dr Semmelweis reminds us of the need for humility and to listen to each other.
Science is never settled, we are constantly learning from our patients and from each other.
Raymond Berto provides an interesting summary of the story of Semmelweis, particularly the relevance of hand hygiene to effective infection control; but perhaps also this is a timely reminder that scientific facts now considered self evident and true, were indeed ridiculed and then violently opposed- even by the learned medical community. https://www.christeyns.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/post_story-semmelweis-handhygieneday.pdf –
“Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? It may be interesting to briefly explain the story of this man who successfully related infections of people in the hospital where he worked, to how frequently fellow doctors and medical students from the same hospital washed their hands.
At the age of 28, Ignaz Semmelweis was appointed assistant to the first gynaecological clinic of the Allgemeines KrankenHans (Vienna General Hospital). At the time, this prestigious Viennese clinic was one of the centres chosen by numerous medical students from different European countries to do their final degree internships.
Semmelweis noticed the large number of women who died from fever, responsible for the death of 10-35% of women in labour.
In 1847 Semmelweis proposed to carefully wash their hands with a calcium hypochlorite solution when he worked in the First Obstetric Clinic (Clinic I) of the Vienna General Hospital, where mortality among patients hospitalised in the ward assisted by obstetricians (Clinic I), was three to five times higher than in the ward assisted by midwives (Clinic II).
Semmelweis vigorously defended his discovery and the health of his patients,
“We must stop the massacre,” he wrote. “Once the cause of the increased mortality in the first clinic was identified as cadaverous particles adhering to the hands of the examiners, it was easy to explain why women who delivered in the street suffered a strikingly lower mortality rate than those who delivered in the clinic…”.
He realised that these cadaverous particles entered the affected person’s bloodstream and could affect women who had given birth, pregnant women and the newborn children.
His observations were not taken into consideration, and he was even threatened by his own colleagues.
He was clearly blaming doctors and medical students for these deaths. It was an insult to the image of doctors.
They even claimed that Semmelweis was calling them murderers.
His own boss, Professor Klein, was against him and forbade this sanitary measure, dismissing him in 1849 and leaving Braun in charge, who believed that it was all a problem of poor ventilation.
Again, the death rate increased.”
