Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives: Wash your hands" Historians are quick to remind that Semmelweis was not the first physician to make this clinical connection, one that many expectant mothers of the era called "the doctor's plague." For example, the obstetrician Alexander Gordon Aberdeen, scotland, suggested in his 1795 Treatise on the epidemic of Peurperal fever that midwives and doctors who had recently treated women for peurperal fever spread the malady to other women. More famously, in 1843 Oliver Wendelll Holdems, the harvard anatomist and self-proclaimed "autocrat of the breakfast table," published "The Contagiouness oof puerperal fever," ion which he discerned tha tdisease was spread by physicians and recommended that actively practicing obstetricians abstain from performing autopsies on women who died of puerperal fever as one of their "paramount obligations to society."

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Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives: Wash your hands" Historians are quick to remind that Semmelweis was not the first physician to make this clinical connection, one that many expectant mothers of the era called "the doctor's plague." For example, the obstetrician Alexander Gordon  Aberdeen, scotland, suggested in his 1795 Treatise on the epidemic of Peurperal fever that midwives and doctors who had recently treated women for peurperal fever spread the malady to other women. More famously, in 1843 Oliver Wendelll Holdems, the harvard anatomist and self-proclaimed "autocrat of the breakfast table," published "The Contagiouness oof puerperal fever," ion which he discerned tha tdisease was spread by physicians and recommended that actively practicing obstetricians abstain from performing autopsies on women who died of puerperal fever as one of their "paramount obligations to society."

using the context and suffix -cian, which means "having a certain skill or art," define the worst obstetrician

a. a worker whbo conducts autopsies on people

b. an expactant mother who is afflicted with an illness

c. a doctor who specializes in the transmission of certain diseases

d. a doctor who specializes in the care of womend uring pregnancy and childbirth

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Using the context and the suffix "-cian," which implies "having a certain skill or art," the term "worst obstetrician" refers to:

d. a doctor who specializes in the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth.

This definition highlights that an obstetrician specializes in a particular area of medicine, specifically focused on pregnancy and childbirth. The term "worst obstetrician" would imply someone who fails to provide proper care in that specialty.