Treating the vaccine hesitant

I commend the authors for their empathetic, compassionate, humble, and common-sense response to vaccine hesitancy (or outright vaccine antipathy) in the March issue of Canadian Family Physician.¹ Some old lessons (“treat others as you would like to be treated”) are worth relearning. Earnestly trying to understand our patients’ life stories, beliefs, environments, and perspectives has always been a marker of a skilled family physician, and I thank the authors for reminding us that we treat patients, not COVID-19.

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