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Yael's avatar

I was reading the book on a recent plane flight, when my seatmate pleasantly introduced himself as an (fairly young) Emergency Medicine doc (and his wife is a ped). He said he noticed what I was reading and offered to answer any questions I had. We had a nice conversation - he said he had 2 days of vaccine instruction in med school. He did not know about the MMR whistleblower (and made the mistake of bringing that up). I told him about it. He was having a rough time with my comments and questions about safe and effective. And then (oh no!), he brought up Andy Wakefield and so I filled him in, asked if he had ever read the entire "study." He said he had read the beginning. I encouraged him to read the rest of it and explained why. Asked if he noticed something over and over in the ER and wrote a paper saying someone should research it, if he expected he would lose his ability to practice. He said no, and started to say that he would be careful how he wrote it - I again encouraged him to read the entire paper. Then, I offered to send him a book - but later as we were leaving the plane, I just handed him my copy with his promise to read it (hopefully his wife will too). My replacement arrived yesterday.

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dawn's avatar

I did my own study. Out of ignorance my first sons-twins Vax injured. Learned the hard way. My third son not vaxxed... oh... I know the difference.

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