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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

4: Little Bits Of Corpse

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Was he a lunatic or a genius? Sometimes it's hard to tell, especially when you're telling the world that doctors are killing their patients.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the way I heard it.

0:01.6

No one knows the exact moment at which Iggy lost his mind, but there is no disputing the fact.

0:13.7

He lost it.

0:14.9

The doctor of medicine, once respected and admired by friends and colleagues, Iggy had declared

0:20.2

war on the entire medical profession and burned every professional bridge he'd worked so

0:25.7

hard to build.

0:27.1

So what exactly went wrong?

0:28.9

He pushed Iggy over the edge.

0:31.4

The short answer?

0:33.2

Women.

0:34.4

The hospital where Iggy worked had a maternity ward with two separate clinics.

0:39.2

The first clinic was where the doctors worked.

0:41.3

The second clinic was where the students worked.

0:44.1

Three percent of the women who gave birth in the student clinic died soon thereafter, but

0:49.2

in the doctor clinic where experienced physicians oversaw every birth, the death rate was

0:55.9

500 percent greater.

0:58.3

Iggy was horrified by the disparity and so were the patients.

1:03.7

Expectant mothers begged and pleaded to go into the student clinic.

1:07.5

Some even gave birth on the sidewalk in front of the hospital rather than be admitted

1:11.5

into the doctor clinic.

1:13.2

Iggy was determined to understand why so many mothers were dying in the care of experienced

1:19.0

physicians.

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