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I got my annual flu shot today.

They say that old people are the most vulnerable so that is one thing. Another is that I do not want to get the flu. I have always taken the shot.

This is only important in that no one had a second thought about this until the last couple of years.

The anti-vaccers have landed.

These are the no-nothings that accompany other outbreaks of no-nothingness.

Witness Donald Trump. Would that there would be a vaccine for tiresome blowhards. But there is not.

But I digress.

I have never, ever second guessed my doctors. Not until I sought an alternative opinion and then went with that. Informed judgement.

This is why we have kept a traditional general practitioner who knows us and knows our history. Who applies his medicine to us personally and not out of some file. He says who and how we use specialists.

Someday, Doctor Jim will retire and we will have to make a decision if he does not transfer his practice, whole, to a younger man. He says that he is in for the duration.

He has done what he had to to make his energy be sufficient. For example, he does not give the shots anymore. No problem. I go to my regular pharmacy who also knows me intimately. It is a small outlet that belongs to the Walgreen special network. Designed, in this case, for gay men. It is named "Community".

I suppose that some day medicine will be a mass industry. But for now, not. I hope I will be dead when that happens.

Oh. Did you get your flu shot yet?

Labels: doctor, medicine