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Vaccine hesitancy is complicating physicians' obligation to respect patient autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Ryan Liu, Family Medicine Resident Physician, Penn State
Vaccine hesitancy is complicating physicians' obligation to respect patient autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemicOver the past couple of decades there has been a shift away from upholding patient autonomy to prioritizing public health. Terry Vine/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that...

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