>Get some cut.
>Wondering if I should get tetanus booster.
>Talk to few different doctors, each give me a different advice.
>Some tell me it's not necessary if this or that many years have passed, based on how bad the cut was.
>I ask if it's ok to take a booster even if enough time hasn't passed in between shots. I ask if it might interact with some medications I use or some other chronic illnesses I developed over time.
>They don't know/ don't want to commit to an answer/ tell me it's totally fine even though they can't point to references.
>Look up the references in medical literature by myself because the medical apparently community is useless and has only rote memorized books written in 1940.
>Find very few studies on the necessity of booster shots, and the main ones show that boosters are not necessary as frequently as they are given because people have high amounts of antibodies in their blood after testing, even decades later, provided they took the right amount of shots when young.
>Ask more and more people why booster shots are given with the frequency they are given, and ask for references.
>Absolutely no one gives any to me, and it becomes clear the number of year between booster shots was just a rough guess by whoever came up with the vaccine. It has not been properly tested, validated, statistically derived or any such thing.
I'm willing to bet most medical knowledge doesn't hold up to serious scientific scrutiny and we are basically permanent guinea pigs, until something goes too wrong/kills to many people/ causes too much money loss to companies.
How does one deal with this?
>Wondering if I should get tetanus booster.
>Talk to few different doctors, each give me a different advice.
>Some tell me it's not necessary if this or that many years have passed, based on how bad the cut was.
>I ask if it's ok to take a booster even if enough time hasn't passed in between shots. I ask if it might interact with some medications I use or some other chronic illnesses I developed over time.
>They don't know/ don't want to commit to an answer/ tell me it's totally fine even though they can't point to references.
>Look up the references in medical literature by myself because the medical apparently community is useless and has only rote memorized books written in 1940.
>Find very few studies on the necessity of booster shots, and the main ones show that boosters are not necessary as frequently as they are given because people have high amounts of antibodies in their blood after testing, even decades later, provided they took the right amount of shots when young.
>Ask more and more people why booster shots are given with the frequency they are given, and ask for references.
>Absolutely no one gives any to me, and it becomes clear the number of year between booster shots was just a rough guess by whoever came up with the vaccine. It has not been properly tested, validated, statistically derived or any such thing.
I'm willing to bet most medical knowledge doesn't hold up to serious scientific scrutiny and we are basically permanent guinea pigs, until something goes too wrong/kills to many people/ causes too much money loss to companies.
How does one deal with this?
