Vaccine hesitancy anecdote
May 17, 2022 3:28 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for an anecdote that I've come across a few times on Twitter and/or Tumblr. It involves a doctor getting someone to agree to a vaccine by countering the patient's conspiracy theory with an even wilder one. Can you help me find it?
From what I remember, the anecdote has the following details:
The writer is describing something he observed another doctor do while the writer was a resident.
The patient refuses to get a vaccine, citing conspiracy theories. When told about this, the doctor says something like, "Leave it to me, I know how to handle this."
Then the doctor talks with the patient and suggests that the patient's beliefs are actually the result of a different, deeper conspiracy. I think the version I saw had the doctor suggesting that the Chinese government is behind anti-vaccine conspiracies in the US to try to make Americans weaker / more sickly.
The anecdote ends with the previously hesitant patient heartily agreeing to be vaccinated.
For $Reasons, it'd be useful for me to be able to find this anecdote/meme. I have no assumptions that this anecdote is in any way an accurate retelling of something that has actually happened, but it'd be useful for me to be able to find it again. Can you help?
From what I remember, the anecdote has the following details:
The writer is describing something he observed another doctor do while the writer was a resident.
The patient refuses to get a vaccine, citing conspiracy theories. When told about this, the doctor says something like, "Leave it to me, I know how to handle this."
Then the doctor talks with the patient and suggests that the patient's beliefs are actually the result of a different, deeper conspiracy. I think the version I saw had the doctor suggesting that the Chinese government is behind anti-vaccine conspiracies in the US to try to make Americans weaker / more sickly.
The anecdote ends with the previously hesitant patient heartily agreeing to be vaccinated.
For $Reasons, it'd be useful for me to be able to find this anecdote/meme. I have no assumptions that this anecdote is in any way an accurate retelling of something that has actually happened, but it'd be useful for me to be able to find it again. Can you help?
Response by poster: Yep! That's it! Thank you.
posted by meese at 4:26 PM on May 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by meese at 4:26 PM on May 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
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