You Are Not Alone One Doctor’s Saga AMAC’s national spokesman, Robert Charles, had the pleasure of speaking with a US Navy Reserve Medical Corps veteran, who would like to remain anonymous. This is his story.
“Y ou are not alone,” his brother assured him. He sure felt alone. Still, he took stock: this seasoned medical doctor, a veteran of the US Navy Reserve Medical Corps, a practitioner for more than 30 years, who had trained with Army Rangers and excelled in civilian and military hospitals — knew his brother was right . . . he did know his stuff. But who imagined that being a thoughtful and sensitive medical doctor would become tougher than his military service? Fighting for his career, doing his job well, upholding the Hippocratic Oath, and raising questions about an untested mRNA vaccine? Surely, he never did. By way of background, his life’s jour- ney had made him into a neuromus- cular specialist, with expertise in
acute to chronic pain. Profession- ally, he was a standout, with years of awards for patient care, distin- guished academically, profession- ally published, twice named a “top doctor” in one of America’s top cities for medicine, and nationally recog- nized. But here he was. He had been asked by patients and offered his best advice under unprec- edented circumstances, a federal roll- out, and job-threatening mandates for students, military, and civilian employees, all tied to a novel, experi- mental, mRNA vaccine. Like tens of thousands of other doctors, he was expected to accept and promote the vaccine, based on CDC (Centers for Disease Control) guidance, a nationwide campaign that even mainstream media
outlets — like ABC News and Good Morning America — called “fear-based advertising.” Like tens of thousands of others, he offered what he knew — with caution. What we now know about the initial vaccine, which 68 percent of the population have received, is that caution was — if not an obvious choice — justified. Without getting into a medical debate, we broadly know that some benefited greatly from the vaccine, while others suffered severe side effects. Moreover, we know mRNA vaccines are different from traditional vaccines. Traditional vaccines are tested for 5 to 10 years, but not so here — another departure point worthy of doctor-patient discussion. Gener- ally, the vaccines can be produced
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