Remember the BMJ Online poll on the most important medical advance sinc 1840? [Most Important Medical Advance]. Well, the results are out and we won! That is to say, my choice "sanitation" came out on top with 16% of the votes. Close behind were anaesthesia and antibiotics but they probably got extra votes just because they were at the top of the list on the ballot.

The results are [here]. As you might imagine, the whining from the losers has already begun. See Hsien Hsien Lei posts [We Lost] and [Prof. John Burn Roots for DNA]. Sorry guys, DNA is cool and all that but I'd rather have sewers and clean water.

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