What's Wrong with That? (2)

One important fact here.

There may be people wondering why pseudomembranous colitis is such an important disease.

Simply put, pseudomembranous colitis is a disease that can develop after taking antibiotics.

It's more common than you'd think.

In modern hospitals, there was always at least one or two patients on a ward with it. If an inpatient developed diarrhea, it was one of the first things we tested for.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. probably get it every year?

It's strange that the mechanism behind a disease like that still hasn't been figured out... But it wasn't a simple problem, so it took time.

The point was that this was a discovery that would change the world.

And we were on the verge of experimentally establishing how it worked. We had practically found an effective treatment, too.

This was the clinical laboratory...