The Stoopid, It Burns: Doctor's That Give Healthy Hockey Players 'Interpretative' H1N1 Flu Shots

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I mean, how else to explain the following as a detailed by Justine Hunter yesterday in The Globe:

British Columbia's top health official says an Abbotsford doctor who vaccinated professional hockey players against the H1N1 virus this week broke the rules but will face no repercussions...

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...The AHL farm team for the Calgary Flames (the Abbotsford Heat) had returned from a road trip with five members showing flu-like symptoms, Dr. Adriaan Windt said in an interview earlier in the day. He decided the rest of the team were “at high risk of getting the disease,” so he instructed them to go to the physicians' clinic where he practices to get the vaccine....

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...Dr. Windt said doctors should be able to interpret the guidelines to decide who is eligible...

Really, Dr. Windt?

OK, which part of the following, precisely, from the same Globe story by Ms. Hunter, is open to 'interpretation'?

...Under B.C.'s vaccination protocol, the only people who should be getting the H1N1 vaccine right now are people under 65 with chronic health conditions, those who live in remote and isolated communities, children six months to five years of age, pregnant women, the caregivers of infants to six months of age and people with compromised immune systems. Some front-line health workers are also being offered the vaccine....

And where, exactly, did you find the words, 'healthy, young-adult hockey players' in that passage?

Or is that just an imaginative interpretive dance we see there on your I-Pod?

Or some such codswallop.

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