Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
The video features stories from two Texas families that have lost children to vaccine preventable disease. You may either watch the video or listen to the the stirring personal story of Dr. Anna Lincoln's encounter of the absence of a vaccine now available.
Anna Lincoln, MD, FAAP Her Personal Encounter
(Recorded April 2009)
Dr Lincoln is a pediatrician in private practice in Buda, Texas, and a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr Lincoln's two sons, are now ages 13and 11, daughter #1 is age 5 and and a new arrival daughter Annie Jean (AJ) is 5 months old. Listen to the entire interview or read the edited transcript.
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Selected Audio Subjects
- Tell us about what happened to your eldest son when he was a baby.
- Just after he was diagnosed, a pneumococcal vaccine was released, correct?
- In your practice, do you have a lot of parents asking about vaccines?
- How do you feel about alternative vaccine schedules?
- What do you say to parents worried about vaccine side effects?
- Why does the MMR vaccine trigger questions for parents?
- Do you recommend the chicken pox vaccine?
- What adolescent vaccines do you recommend?
- What's the most important information parents need about vaccines?
- How is your son doing today?
