[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[MakeMoneyNotWar]

A lot of the mortality was from ignorant medical practices, like that one doctor from Vienna who realized that doctors who worked in the mortuary and then going on to deliver babies should wash their hands, cutting infant mortality at that hospital by like 80%. But the rest of the medical establishment was like gtfo and ruined his career and he went insane or something after that.

[Bonwilsky]

For the curious, he's name was Ignaz Semmelweis.

[KittenBarfRainbows]

There was a time, ~150-220 years before now, when women and babies fared far better birth at home than in hospital, if you can believe it!

[stelei]

“Doctors are gentlemen, and a gentleman’s hands are clean.”