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> American's actually have very good doctors

Doctors aren't setting the rules on who gets what vaccine and when. RFK Jr is. Health insurance companies are.

RFK Jr wasn't doing anything worth talking about during the multiple times in the past 15 years my doctors have told me it wasn't recommended.

Please do not turn mainstream medical advice into a fringe position.

It's a standard vaccine for preteen/teen boys now too. If your doctor has been telling you not to get it for the past 15 years, they've been doing you a disservice.

I haven’t been a preteen boy for the past 15 years.

I got 3 doses of gardasil at 37 in Norway. I do not want to expose women to a potentially deadly virus (plus I’d also like to avoid having penile cancer and mouth/throat cancer myself). If your doctor is seriously advising you against taking the vaccine, you should consult another doctor for a second opinion.

I trust my doctor ... he's not some quack. I've looked online (multiple times over the years) and he's simply applying federal guidelines.

Family members have died from cervical cancer so I get it. I also made sure my younger children received this vaccine.

There a ton of vaccines I could seek out. Why HPV specifically?

> There a ton of vaccines I could seek out. Why HPV specifically?

Assuming you are not commenting in bad faith, my reasons are in my original comment: "I do not want to expose women to a potentially deadly virus (plus I’d also like to avoid having penile cancer and mouth/throat cancer myself)."

And I really don’t either. Close relatives have died from cervical cancer. I care about it a lot.

Ideologically it feels weird, but when the doctor says it’s not recommended, what do I say?

I’ve never fallen in the recommended categories. I’ve been to doctors overseas where I do fall in the recommended categories, but even they say to follow the advice off my “home practitioner.”

And while I’m at it, how do I generalize the ethics behind this? Which medicines should I ignore doctors advice and take anyway?

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