Maternal mortality rates from childbirth were astronomically high in a ward run by doctors who performed autopsies compared to a ward run by nurses.

“so Samuel Weiss was delivering children and there were two maternity Awards what one in word twos um and this is why it's important in medicine I came to listen to your patients you know the famous adage in medicine is the most important question that you ever ask in medicine when you're trying to diagnose a patient is to ask the patient what do you think the problem is um and it's the one we forget the most right doctors never ask that question but usually the patient will tell you the problem is they'll say you know I think I have an infection in my lungs or you know I think I'm you know depressed because of X or Y reasons um because I lost my father so so IL wise learned to ask people uh of us of a bizarre aberration that was going on which is that in world one the the infant the maternal mortality rates from childbirth were uh astronomically High whereas in word two same Sim similarly same people same women coming in were much much lower and he asks a very simple and he knew this because he the you know at least The Story Goes whether it's apocryphal or Not The Story Goes that um that in world one um people you know mothers would beg to to be admitted into into the the safer World while they would beg not to be admitted to the where you know they would have a 30 mortality rate or a 20 mortality rate one out of five women this is an incredible number if you think about it”