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–Ivar Anders Eide
Chief physician at the Department of Kidney, Akershus University Hospital
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Strikingly many of those who hesitate with the vaccine, originally come from a country other than Norway, writes chief physician Ivar Anders Eide. The observations I will share with you are not research. But they deserve to be heard.
Debate
This is a debate post. Opinions in the text are at the writer’s expense.I work as a doctor for kidney transplants and people with severe kidney failure. These are groups of patients who are particularly prone to severe covid-19 disease.
Many of the patients we follow at Ahus have a mother tongue other than Norwegian. Together with the patient association, we therefore made information films in 25 languages, a vaccination podcast and a study on the effect of tailoring information about covid-19 to kidney disease and to the individual patient. Nevertheless, there were several who did not want the vaccine. Strikingly many of them originally came from a country other than Norway.
Stuck in pondering
The observations I will share with you are not research. Nevertheless, sometimes observations are important enough that they deserve to be heard.
The first patient has read about the vaccine’s possible side effects. I sit and tilt the end of the chair and wait for the opportunity to say the redemptive words that lead him straight to the vaccination office. It is not going to happen. This is not how you create change. I decide to be more laid back and wondering next time.
The person I meet now is stuck in pondering.
“Everything is just a mess,” she says.
All decisions are postponed. After clearing up her worries together and writing arguments for and against the vaccine on an A4 sheet, she says: “Yes, I’m taking it.”
Virtually all the conversations with the vaccine needles ended with a syringe in the shoulder
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I have been following the next patient for several years. He does not want to participate in our study. I had noticed that those who did not want the vaccine would not participate in the study either.
“They will not be seen in the cards,” I think to myself.
“I’m afraid of becoming a guinea pig for the vaccine,” he says.
The person in question has been a guinea pig once, in another country, for how much beating one can tolerate, at the request of the country’s authorities.
“… but fortunately the Norwegian authorities treat their population better.”
A few weeks later he takes the vaccine.
“I’m in Norway now,” he says. “I trust Norway.”
Vaccine control
I have had 15-20 such conversations. Most doctors and nurses in our department have had such conversations.
“This is not a bunch of conspiracy theorists.” It buzzes around the lunch table.
“Just let them talk, do not say anything. If what seemed logical inside their heads is said out loud, they themselves hear that it is out of the question. ”
I get associations to online trolls that burst when they get the surrounding spotlight on them. I wonder if they might be many, those who listen to a vaccine troll inside them, those who have to meet a patient listener before the troll bursts.
Time – the health service’s biggest scarcity benefit – the time eaten from all sides, especially during the pandemic.
Conversation helps
This autumn, we are analyzing the immune response after covid vaccination in our patients. I recognize more names in the data file with a later vaccine date than the others.
Some of them I have met, others have colleagues met and told about.
“Strange,” I think. Virtually all the conversations with the vaccine needles ended with a syringe in the shoulder.
“Wow!” says my colleague, seeing that the same applies to him.
«Wow! She too. I did not see it coming. ”
He looks thoughtful in the air.
“We must not give up the vaccine needles.”
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