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This one was just fun:

There once was a man from Budapest

who compared which ward could do the best.

He compared the physicians

with midwife clinicians.

The doulas saved more lives- who'd have guessed?

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One sentence:

A man observes that commonly-accepted best-practices have worse outcomes than less socially-esteemed ones.

Two sentences:

Semmelweis discovered that doctors were unintentionally killing their patients. He thought that autopsies were spreading little pieces of death.

Three sentences:

He ruled out all the other possibilities. Washing hands seemed so simple. Unfortunately pride prevented them from accepting it.

Three words:

Oh, the irony!

This really made me think about the story much more than I originally imagined. I also liked trying to use different lengths to show different aspects of the story.

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