In Search of the Cause of Death of Dr. Semmelweis: From Budapest to Vienna and Back Again

Join Dr. Andrew Schafer, Professor of Medicine in Hematology-Oncology and Director of the Richard T. Silver Center for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, as he presents at 5:00 pm on March 10, 2021 on the adventures he encountered while writing a book on the remarkable events of Dr. Ingác Semmelweis’s life.

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Should Clinical Medicine be Regulated like Research?

From a young age we are taught the importance of washing our hands to stop the spread of germs. The notion of killing bacteria with hand sanitizer and hand washing has become a largely mainstream concept today - especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic - however, this was not always the case. Until the late 1800s, many medical professionals did not wash their hands before, during, or after seeing patients!