The flu shot starts to work two weeks after you get it, and its effectiveness wears off after a couple of months. Most influenza comes in Dec. and on. Yet pharmacies seem to be promoting folks to get flu shots in October.
Frank F., aged 69, was not aging gracefully. While there wasn’t a specific acute episode of deterioration of any single condition, his overall health was declining incrementally and progressively.
In the past 11 years, I have now officially lived in four different provinces (and moved between five), all in the name of medical education (and my final staff “resting place” here in B.C).
We need Canada’s 44th Parliament to focus on building a stronger, more balanced frame for Canadian society’s collective house after COVID-19 exposed its rotting planks.
Patients threaten our staff when asked to put on a mask or spit at us when asked to show proof of vaccination. We need governments and health authorities to support clinic owners to improve safety measures.
