On my drive home tonight from the hospital I heard this on NPR. Made me smile that there is such thing as medical poetry.
Myth Dispelled
by Adam Possner
The flu vaccine cannot
give you the flu, I tell him.
It's dead virus, there's
nothing alive about it.
It can't make you sick.
That's a myth.
But if we bury it in
the grassy knoll
of your shoulder,
an inch under the stratum
corneum, as sanctioned by
your signature
in a white-coated ceremony
presided over by
my medical assistant
and then mark the grave
with a temporary
non-stick headstone,
the trivalent spirit
of that vaccine
has a 70 to 90 percent
chance of warding off
the Evil One,
and that's the God's
honest truth.
Citation :
"Myth Dispelled" by Adam Possner, MD /JAMA. December 5,2012 Vol. 308 (21):2178. "