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Aristus

(72,519 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:00 AM Oct 2025

Flu vaccination season has started at the clinic. So far, so good.

No anti-vaxxers yet. Most patients are coming in requesting their immunizations. One guy was hesitant, and I answered his questions and concerns. Then he got his immunization.

A couple of weeks ago, I treated a woman (not on my patient panel: her primary care provider was booked solid) for a URI. She was concerned that she had COVID. It turned out not to be, but I encouraged her to get vaccinated against it. She insisted that the COVID vaccine gives you myocarditis. I couldn’t talk her off that ledge. I don’t think she’ll be coming back to see me. That will save me the trouble of telling her to get vaccinated or get out.

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Flu vaccination season has started at the clinic. So far, so good. (Original Post) Aristus Oct 2025 OP
Thank you, my dear Aristus, for this valuable life-saving work you're doing! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2025 #1
I Got Mine Saturday Before Last ProfessorGAC Oct 2025 #2
Happy DU Anniversary underpants Oct 2025 #3
Thank you! Aristus Oct 2025 #4
Yeah, you're just a year away True Dough Oct 2025 #5
I hadn't thought about that. Aristus Oct 2025 #6

ProfessorGAC

(77,272 posts)
2. I Got Mine Saturday Before Last
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:13 PM
Oct 2025

I read the paper but I forget whose shot I got. But, the pharmacist said it was the "new one" which I assume was for this season.

Aristus

(72,519 posts)
6. I hadn't thought about that.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 11:38 PM
Oct 2025

Silver status. Has quite a ring to it.

I never would have dreamed that day in 2001 that I would still be here a quarter century later.

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