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Old 09-15-2014, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by B767drvr View Post
Mercola did not author the article I referenced.

>>Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, “Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.”
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My daughter works for a very large medical group which operates six hospitals. All employees are required to get flu and other shots, physicians included. Since my daughter is allergic to some protein component in the vaccine she goes to an allergy doctor who administers the vaccine to her using several very small shots spaced apart a half hour.

I had the Hong Kong flu. For a time while I had it I could not move my legs. The experience was terrifying. I now get a flu shot every year.

Back in my thirties I was hospitalized with pneumonia over a week and put on five intravenous antibiotics. I do not want to go through that again so I have had pneumonia shots. As previously stated an ounce of prevention...
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