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A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc - Video: Before flu-shot mandates became widespread, many doctors I knew did not receive the vaccine. They felt its benefits were negligible, had concerns about its risks, and thought a mandate made little sense.
This 2009 CNN segment shows New York healthcare workers openly protesting an annual flu-shot requirement.
It is remarkable how quickly a mandate was able to shift critical thinking on this topic into an embrace of vaccination.
In my article, I discuss how professional expectations can reinforce an existing belief: once doctors have accepted a practice themselves and promoted it to patients, reconsidering it becomes much more personally difficult:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-have-vaccines-become-a-religion
https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/2107459203161891014

A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc - Video: One explanation for medicine’s attachment to vaccines is that they occupy a central place in the profession’s account of how it rescued humanity from infectious disease.
In this presentation, Secretary Kennedy challenges that account. I believe the resistance to examining it is partly explained by how closely it is tied to medicine’s status and authority.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-have-vaccines-become-a-religion
Dr. Suzanne Humphries encountered a revealing example. When she raised concerns about kidney failure following flu shots, a colleague responded by invoking the successes of smallpox and polio vaccination.
Those were different vaccines and different questions. Yet their reputation was being used to dismiss the clinical problem she was trying to investigate.
https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/2107458991706001787

A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc - One of the most consequential details in a vaccine trial is what the control group receives.
For example, the main prelicensure study for Prevnar 7 used another experimental vaccine as its comparator. Hepatitis B studies monitored for side effects for only 4–5 days.