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[agb80]

My family physician has 30 years experience and both his parent were also doctors as is his sister and brother in law also in the same building.  The entire staff of nurses, medical specialists and office staff is very professional and extremely smart.  The waiting room is huge and so getting vaccinated there would have been no problem whatsoever.  You wait and see.....this will happen all throughout the U.S. going forward as people need booster shots, etc.  

[Tori3569]

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@agb80 wrote:

My family physician has 30 years experience and both his parent were also doctors as is his sister and brother in law also in the same building.  The entire staff of nurses, medical specialists and office staff is very professional and extremely smart.  The waiting room is huge and so getting vaccinated there would have been no problem whatsoever.  You wait and see.....this will happen all throughout the U.S. going forward as people need booster shots, etc.  

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I have a wonderful doctor with a large office space, but the primary issue is the strict temperature checks and freezer requirements.  I don't expect to see many doctors' offices invest in that equipment quickly.  Hopefully, there will be more temperature stable vaccines going forward.

We actually got our shots at Yankee Stadium.  We've had seasons tickets for years, but I never would have expected to be there for something like that.  They actually gave us baseballs when we left---they were supposed to be a giveaway item from last season.  

[Meowingkitty]

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@agb80 wrote:

I would have much preferred to be vaccinated by my primary care physician.  The roll out was just stupid  It is much easier to just go to the doctor we always go to.  And yes, they have a freezer  

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Not for me. I just drove 10 minutes down the street to State Farm Stadium got my 2nd appointment scheduled, got the 1st shot and was done in 30 minutes. I don't need to see a doctor, pay a co-pay and wait forever for when they decide to grace me with their appearance. They are doing over 9,000 shots a day at this one location and have it well organized.

if I was not able to do the above I would go to CVS or Walgreens before I would be bothered going to a doctor.

[ProudMa]

Logically, how can you expect your primary doctor to be able to administer the vaccine?

So far 50mm americans have received one of the shots....imagine them all going into the doctors office...

plus who is going to do all the paperwork? the office staff?and what about the regular doctor apointments? Do they get pushed aside? or do you expect Doctors to work 24/7? 

Be reasonable...the large vaccine rollouts sites is the ONLY way this makes sense.

This isnt the 1950's where your kindly Dr Welby will take of everything for you. 

Today, you have to be your own healthcare advocate....

[Imaoldhippie]

Why does it matter where you get the vaccine?  We got our 1st dose in the parking lot of our local health center and thats where we are going to get our 2nd.

IMO taking up physicians time & office space with a simple injection is just plain silly.

[LindaSal]

@Tori3569  I love that story of Yankee Stadium!  Gillette Stadium is doing the same thing in

Foxboro MA. (where the Patriots play)   I believe today they will hit 65,878 vaccines given for MA residents. (the # of seats in the stadium).   That person who is that count will receive two tickets to the Patriots home opener in September!    I'm in RI and we're not doing so great with rolling out the vaccine.  I kind of wish our primary care could give us the shot too, but I understand it would be difficult for physician offices.   Hopefully MA will invite us in

[CelticCrafter]

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@ProudMa wrote:

Logically, how can you expect your primary doctor to be able to administer the vaccine?

So far 50mm americans have received one of the shots....imagine them all going into the doctors office...

plus who is going to do all the paperwork? the office staff?and what about the regular doctor apointments? Do they get pushed aside? or do you expect Doctors to work 24/7? 

Be reasonable...the large vaccine rollouts sites is the ONLY way this makes sense.

This isnt the 1950's where your kindly Dr Welby will take of everything for you. 

Today, you have to be your own healthcare advocate....

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Could you imagine how long people would have to wait for an appointment if they had to go to their own doctor for the vaccine? 

It's a you know what show now for some people trying to get appointments through the mega sites.  

[Lipstickdiva]

I'm waiting until my doctor comes to my house to administer the vaccine.....

[bakergirl]

Surprisingly, our PCP's offfice called last week(we had registered online with our county healthy dept) to ask if we wanted to schedule our Covid vacines - we are both over 65, having pre-existing health issues(serious ones) and so we were scheduled and had our first vaccines yeaterday, the 16th at a local emergency health clinic 5 or so miles from our home. It was well organized, though we had to wait to register and then a line to get to the room where vaccine was adminstered(mine by an RN from our PCP office as it turns out) and then waited  15 minutes before leaving with our appt. for round 2 in 3 weeks and card with all the information we are to keep for future.

I was nervous but all went well - today woke up with arm more sore than flu shot, but Tylenol and cold pack taking care of most of that.

And here we thought we were not going to have vaccine for months!

[ECBG]

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@Shelbelle wrote:

Also remember, best to not get a mammogram until 4 weeks after the 2nd shot. 

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@Shelbelle 

Hadn't heard that at all!  Wow!  

Many thanks.