Dear American Medical Association,
I am an emergency medicine-critical care physician practicing at a rural hospital in New England. I had the privilege of doing my fellowship in critical care during the two big waves of COVID-19 that were responsible for millions of deaths. I had the privilege of holding the hands of many, many dying men and women who were not ready to die. I was the one who told their families that we could no longer oxygenate their loved ones. I ordered the paralytics. I placed the dialysis lines. I hopelessly silenced the vent alarms while standing in five layers of PPE. I also had the privilege of watching the COVID-19 vaccine slowly make this disappear.
I did this already. I do not intend to watch millions more die from vaccine preventable diseases.
Please do something.
-a tired physician