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Bandit's avatar

My first appt. with my new GP. Dr: Do you want this, that, and another vax? Me: No. No. And No. Dr: Well, what about this other vax over here? Me: No. I've already had my lifetime limit of aluminum. Dr: Extremely dirty look. Me: Big grin.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I cancelled my appt last year and haven't been back, At some point need to find a new one. But saw little point in getting lectured about my refusal to take statins, shots, or get a bunch of expensive screenings. It's a sales pitch not a HC screening so I opted out.

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Kate's avatar

PCP tried to put me on statins 15 years ago and i refused. I am still here.

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Bandit's avatar

I took them for awhile, after being browbeaten. I felt like crap, so I quit them. Have found out since how bad they are for you. They starve your brain of the fat it needs to work and they are the leading cause of Alzheimer's.

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Kate's avatar

I had heard that from friends about statins causing muscle aches and pains. Then i read about the Alzheimers angle so i am glad i never took

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Bandit's avatar

I didn't just have aches and pains, which were just annoying, I felt like I was moving through thick mud, that slowed every move I made down to a crawl. It was exhausting.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Same. Maddening as I do exercise and have a pretty healthy diet with some cheating but nothing moved the needle on my 'high cholesterol' numbers so caved and took them. Honestly I don't think I had any ill effects, but in all the free time I had in 2020 went down many rabbit holes started learning about the great statin scam and just opted out. Still went for my physical every year but it was nothing more than a battle. Last year there was a bad snowstorm the day of my appointment so I just cancelled and never re-scheduled. Need to find a new doc but just keep putting it off. I take care of my 86 YO mom and run her to all her appts and love her PCP but she is not taking new patients as she is transitioning towards retirement.

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DrGU's avatar

Jennifer looks like this is one of your colleagues in arms - an “ up-to-date” DNP😭 from Emory University no less.

The references, she lists as techniques, “motivational discussions”, and references to how to push the jabs are very helpful to those of us who observe what’s going on with three major influencers of FMD/ OB/GYN level.

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Jennifer Brown's avatar

Isn’t it disgusting?!?!?!

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Dana Granberg-Nill MD FAAFP's avatar

I would find another GP.

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Bandit's avatar

There aren't any taking patients.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

The arrogance and condescension is infuriating. Doctors have lost the plot.

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

So has the nitwit writing the article. Why, she's "a 'scholar' of vaccine hesitancy..."

A "scholar" of "vaccine hesitancy."

The sh*t you just can' make up.

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SomeDude's avatar

they lost it right around when Rockefeller used the Flexner Report to demonize all medicine not allopathic or derived from petroleum

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Crixcyon's avatar

But not the murder plot.

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Crixcyon's avatar

Okay doc...can I ask questions and all? Pull out the vaccine insert and lets go over it together. Please explain all the ingredients and what they do and why they are in there. Then what are the short and long term risks? Can you pull up a few trials that explain this further?

Now, lets go over how the vaccine was approved and discuss all the possible backlash and negative consequences. This will be required for ALL vaccines and mRNA poisons. Then if I am injured, what can I do? Sure doc, I have all the time in the world since you are trying to bamboozle me into accepting the very poisons you know absolutely nothing about.

Well doc...thanks for your time and I am sorry you were not able to answer any of my questions and concerns. NO SALE! Oh, and at your next paid for wing-bang at some swanky resort for some silly medical conference, tell your big pharma masters to SHOVE IT.

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Katherine's avatar

Awesome comment.

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Dee Dee's avatar

no extra time needed here....NO means NO

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Joe's avatar

This writer and the periodical are 100% in with the delusion "We are experts and are wise" mantra.

This worked in the days of Marcus Welby, MD.

No more as some of us still remember the "safe and effective" prevarications of the bought and paid for crowd. (When was that? Last week?)

This woman is a hammer and every patient is her nail to hit.

She assumes we are all living as dogs in an atheistic, totally godless environment.

How dare we say NO to her!

She will win many "conversations" through sheer force of will, but she is beginning with a false assumption that all people are animals and act accordingly.

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Patricia's avatar

it says of clinicians "because they know the facts" but the simple truth is they do NOT know the facts they know instead the pharma propaganda.

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Duct Tape's avatar

If they have to use the Hard Sell, then something is wrong with the product. That their first argument right out of the gate is an ad hominem attack says a lot. No facts or data to back up their position. Just calling the patient a kook and deflecting instead of answering questions. Any doctor that uses this technique wants you dead right after you pay their bill. Run fast!

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Dana Granberg-Nill MD FAAFP's avatar

MedPage continues to have clinicians "prop up" their charade. Many times the comments are closed now but I noticed that they "moderate" the comments and can remove "misinformation" from comments. These sources of propaganda deserve to be taken down and made accountable for their part in big pharma vaccine pushing, group think propaganda campaigns. I took a picture but cannot add to this comment.

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Jennifer Brown's avatar

Yes! They send in in the “squad” if anyone rational pops up with opposing thoughts in the comments…..or they delete the comment entirely!

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It’snotaboutme's avatar

It is truly sad that the vast majority of physicians are completely blind to the risk/benefit ratio of vaccines. One simply has to query a doctor to see his/her stance on vaccines and, across the board, the response would be that it is incredibly irresponsible to refuse a vaccine because vaccines have saved millions of lives and have practically eliminated all of the serious disease of the past. It will sound like a commercial because this is exactly what we are taught to say. When the medical hierarchy pronounces a treatment it is like the pope speaking from the throne of Peter - It is infallible. This is what we are taught. Until Covid came and opened my eyes, I was a faithful acolyte to that ideology. It is going to take a seismic shift to move doctors off of the dogma of vaccines are the sacred cow of medicine. They have been gaslighted for years and years throughout medical school, residency, conferences and pharmaceutical reps to believe this and to say otherwise brands one as a heretic and a quack. That is the simple truth. RFK Jr. will have a hell of a time proving to the practicing physicians of the world that vaccines are not the sacred cow that they have been told and the diseases of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were vanishing from the landscape because of sanitation reforms and improvement in squalid living conditions and water purification and simple hand washing.

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