Richard Shotton
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1,228 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Richard Shotton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is, in Semmelweis' eyes, phenomenal.
Surely everyone is going to adopt this behavior.
But to his absolute horror, lots of doctors don't jump at the opportunity to save more of their patients.
They are amazingly resistant to accepting this new technology.
And essentially, it drives Semmelweis basically mad.
He does.
His wife, I think, you know, probably for good many reasons, like, tricks him.
Says they're going out on a day escapade.
She takes him to the asylum.
And when he's being put in the asylum, this is the horror of it all, he...
Unsurprisingly, he doesn't want to go.
There is a struggle.
There is a fight.
And he gets injured.
He gets cut.
And he dies of a sepsis that his research had been showing how to treat.
Absolutely horrible story for so many reasons.
But it became famous as...
It's probably the most extreme example, but again and again, there are all sorts of discoveries that people, even though they have this amazing impact, existing practitioners won't accept.
So essentially, the Semmelweis reflex is the argument that there's a tendency to ignore new ideas if they challenge existing ones.
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