The majority of women dying from "childbed fever" happened after birth moved from the home and midwife to the hospital and doctor. Physicians would go from bed to bed, from woman to woman, without washing their hands in-betweeen. It was only after it was known that handwashing prevents disease (after germ theory was developed) that docs started proper handwashing and maternal deaths from infecion were drastically reduced.
I've seen parents tell the doctor what a "great job" he did, after he "delivered" the baby. Um, excuse me, Mr. MD, wasn't that the woman I just saw giving birth to her baby?
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Date: 2006-03-23 09:49 pm (UTC)I've seen parents tell the doctor what a "great job" he did, after he "delivered" the baby. Um, excuse me, Mr. MD, wasn't that the woman I just saw giving birth to her baby?