A friend of the blog emails:

This thread makes me extremely sad as a healthcare worker.
It is so full of people identifying themselves as fellow healthcare workers who are mocking this man for being worried about the Covid-19 vaccine affecting his heart. They claim he’ll get a new one anyway if he just gets the vaccine. He’s worried the vaccine might kill him first. I don’t know what his doctors have told him, but I think it’s a reasonable question. Have his doctors addressed his concerns? Have they mocked him like those on Twitter?
As a healthcare worker, I encounter skeptical people all the time. They don’t believe they have to follow restrictions after surgery, they don’t believe their stroke has affected their safety, they believe there’s a pill for any possible problem and don’t believe they have to do any effort for their health. It’s not my job to laugh, shrug my shoulders and walk away. I want these patients to meet their goals. I need to ask questions and listen to their concerns. I need to give them information so they can at least understand their options and risks and make informed decisions.
Our healthcare system has set up a country of opioid addicts, a country of people who have Type 2 diabetes through diet choices, a country of people with cholesterol and heart problems. All of these issues probably could be reduced through listening to people rather than just telling people what’s best for them and expecting them to follow through because “we are the experts.”
I have been on the patient end myself. Were it not for my own medical background, my experience would be much different. It shouldn’t be that way.
But, if our healthcare system is being run by some of the people in this thread, things are not going to change.

If Arhtur (not Henry) Miller were writing The Crucible in 2021-22, he’d be setting it in a public health clinic.

UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. On a day like today, I’m lucky I didn’t refer to the Minneapolis Millers.

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