Anesthesia Twitter Space: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnGeRXqQWbJX. Space teaches patient what questions to ask when going in for an elective procedure, about informed consent, and advanced directives.
Hi. among providers, are you listing clinical psychologists? If yes, how might I get added to your list? I’m a licensed clinical psychologist in California.
Thank you for that resource. I just turned down a job because the facility required the Tdap, of all things. I was able to apply for religious exemption from the C & flu (didn’t find out if they were granted yet) but not for Tdap? Strange one to take a hard line on; I understand risks and am willing to take them. I have a feeling I’ll need to make sure future exemption forms are bullet proof.
Meryl Nass, MD : That part of each meeting was what I hated most. It was a process in which unmeasurable issues were pulled into the decisionmaking process. For example, will patient sbe happy with our decision? Will vaccine access be easy? Does providing this new vaccination enhance equity? The answer would of course be yes to all 3. Then those yeses would be used to balance a poor risk-benefit ratio (or a very high vaccine cost) to turn the equation supporting the vaccine into a net positive.
Meryl Nass, MD : In other words, the GRADE process was the method by which the House (CDC) could skim the rubes (the ACIP) and control the decisionmaking about adding a new vaccine. Clearly, Pharma and CDC do not want to lose this essential piece of scientific garbage that tipped every ACIP decision in their favor. And that is why at least half a dozen speakers over the last 2 days have demanded that ACIP include GRADE in its decisionmaking again. It would be hysterical – except that this is how bureaucracies work, how decisions are rigged, and how this independent ACIP is being attacked on all sides.