Dear GP who doesn't want to give my daughter or I flu vaccines:
https://climatejustice.social/@bacigalupe/109591674586129214
(We get them anyway. Because if there's one thing I've learned here in Switzerland, it's that you have to go around the system when the system doesn't give a shit about you.)
Huh?
First, I'm surprised that this'd involve the GP at all (Impfapotheken cover the city of Zurich very densely and there's one or two in every larger town in the canton). Secondly, huh? I'm truly confused why would a GP mind doing that. What was the reasoning, if you don't mind?
@robryk I have a daughter who is not old enough to be vaccinated in the pharmacy.
Sometimes things happen that are not within your experience :) I think my GP in an antivaxxer, frankly.
Unfortunately, it's not uncommon in CH.
The other distinct possibility (this is why most GPs won't vaccinate for COVID in CH) is that they don't get paid as much for the vaccination as they do for other things, and there aren't really enough GPs to go around here, so they can get away with it.
> Sometimes things happen that are not within your experience :)
Yes, this one was far enough that I was very surprised.
> Unfortunately, it's not uncommon in CH.
Hm~ given the popularity of things like homeopathy I can see that being the case :(.
And now I realized that I assumed that the MD requirement consisted of the MD giving a prescription for the vaccination, and that being realizable by a pharmacy, which is probably not the case :/.
@robryk Part of why I get so mad is that this wasn't my experience before and is much worse than I expect :(
@robryk Yeah, sorry about that.
My experience was European medicine and systems in general was very different when I was in a different role - being a parent - especially a single mother - exposes you to a whole different level of systems that is completely invisible otherwise :(