http://radicaldoula.com/2008/05/20/hospitals-not-always-where-you-go-to-get-better/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://radicaldoula.com/2008/05/20/hospitals-not-always-where-you-go-to-get-better/#comment-5510 Kathy Wed, 21 May 2008 02:14:55 +0000 http://radicaldoula.wordpress.com/?p=182#comment-5510 You know the worst part about childbed fever? It wasn't just spread from live woman to live woman. They used recently-dead women (many of whom had actually recently died from childbed fever themselves) to train med students in how to check dilation. Also, doctors did not specialize in childbirth, so they treated everybody, and therefore dealt with an awful lot of sick, dying, and dead people. Without washing their hands. And then checked dilation. It's more a wonder that *every* woman didn't die in the "good ol' days"! You know the worst part about childbed fever? It wasn’t just spread from live woman to live woman. They used recently-dead women (many of whom had actually recently died from childbed fever themselves) to train med students in how to check dilation. Also, doctors did not specialize in childbirth, so they treated everybody, and therefore dealt with an awful lot of sick, dying, and dead people. Without washing their hands. And then checked dilation. It’s more a wonder that *every* woman didn’t die in the “good ol’ days”!

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