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
Over the past couple of decades there has been a shift away from upholding patient autonomy to prioritizing public health.
Terry Vine/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesSitting 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...