NYT Publishes Article By Physician Who Is Angry That Her Patients Don't Want To Take The COVID Vaccine

This primary care physician is angry that in her “limited time with patients” she has to choose between “discussing their physical health problems or their vaccine hesitancy”. (“Each time I’m faced with a patient hedging on the Covid shot, I have to decide whether to put aside the many other pressing medical issues competing for our limited time to go down the vaccine-hesitancy road.”)

Other notable quotes: “When they say, “I’ve had enough Covid vaccinations already,” I’ll probe where the sense of “enough” comes from. I might ask, “Do you ever feel this way about your diabetes medicines or your mammograms?” We’ll explore how they come to conclusions about which treatments they accept and try to separate vague discomfort from specific concerns.” What in the HELLLL????? Comparing a covid vaccine to diabetes medication? Are they serious here?

“But something in me doesn’t feel ready to let it go. The specificity of their Covid refusal — especially compared with flu refusal — piques my curiosity and consternation. So many of my patients have medical problems that put them at high risk for complications of Covid, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, kidney disease, asthma. Yet here they are, one after another, rejecting a medical intervention that most have safely received before and substantially improves outcomes.”. I was dry heaving at this point.

Have a read of the entire article.