I freaking love how you explain how transplants work from a patient teaching perspective! Would you consider doing a series on how you explain common health problems and complications with patients? I feel like your background as a pediatric nurse makes your teaching style even more digestible for any patient. Thanks for the vid! 😁
until this year, my country didn't have significant COVID-19 vaccines, actually, most Sub-Saharan nations didn't have. Yet, I keep hearing westerners complaining about not wanting the vaccines. And why would a patient reject covid-19 vaccination yet they are willing to get someone else's organ??? their religion is against vaccines but allows accepting organ donation??
It does seem to be a strange cognitive dissonance, but I think people are either blinded by fear from misinformation or just very, very uneducated on the topic. Which just proves we need to be fighting for education
I’m about to graduate nursing school and have had many people ask me about the importance of vaccines so I appreciate this video to help me understand further and be able to spread education!
And you’re going to learn even more when you start working and giving these vaccines. Get to know the people who take them and not take them. It’s not misinformation or fear , or that people are not educated. It’s all about choice. Which in the end as a nurse , we are and always be patient advocate. Do no Harm.
My daughter has stage 5 kidney failure and she is 18 years old and we did dialysis and finally when she was 19 she finally got a kidney transplant and we had no problem getting the vaccine I wanted my daughter to live and it turned out the child who donated her kidney tested positive for covid-19 and we still accepted the kidney and my daughter is doing good and yes we have had all our vaccines
I love the way you explained this topic, love your videos. Wish I could do my Primary care precepting with you, I’m sure you are great at explaining things. Great information as usual 👍🏻
I love the nuance here. Also was laughing at the football reference because I understood what you were saying medically, but the reference did help me understand football a little better haha
I think there are people who wear their unvaccinated status as a badge of honor and they can find any kind of off-the-wall news feature to support their stance. You're right- it's become a political statement, rather than anything based on facts or science. You gave an excellent run-down of the transplant situation, Liz, and I don't see how anyone could find a bone to pick with anything you said. If religious beliefs are truly standing in your way of getting vaccinated and qualifying for a transplant, own it and don't vilify the medical professionals who are already forced to ration care due to organ shortages. As a side note, my husband is undergoing cancer treatment that does a number on the immune system. He, myself, and everyone in the family are all vaccinated and boostered. I cannot fathom not taking this common sense measure to protect him when he's already vulnerable. It makes little sense for him to endure the cancer treatments, only to unnecessarily succumb to COVID.
Adverse vaccine reactions definitely happen, no one in medicine is denying that. But these rules are in place for a reason, and it's to protect patients, not punish them.
@@19PurposebyDesgn81 Are you saying that the vaccine poses more risks than having COVID? That's not what I'm hearing from friends and family who work in health care, or from my own doctor.
@@drkaylab What?! Do you mean people like Fauci, Biden, Rachael Maddow, etc. using their platforms to tell the public that if they take these vaccines they're not going to catch or spread COVID? That type of misinformation?
@@richyp64 I've never heard anyone say that the vaccine will guarantee you'll never catch or spread COVID. We aren't promised this even with a flu vaccine. The message I've heard time and again is that being vaccinated against COVID will reduce your risk of serious illness requiring hospitalization and will help ease the strain on our hospitals and health care workers. My own doctor concurs and I believe her.
@@richyp64 the cdc has done a horrible job discussing the vaccine. I totally agree. But they no longer say that it stops spread. When the alpha variant was primary, the vaccine DID slow spread. But ever since delta became prominent that is obviously no longer the case. But they don’t claim it anymore either. This is an evolving thing. Things that were true years ago are no longer true because the situation is different
My husband said something, could you imagine being his children grows up understanding that they could’ve had their dad in their lives if he just got a vaccine. That is some psychological trauma right there. And then we both agreed that it it’s kind of like having a parent choosing alcohol/drugs over their kids. I don’t feel sorry for him, I just feel sorry for his kid’s.
