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🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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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.
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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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