Letter to the editor: Giving vaccines offers an unexpected reward
The gratitude expressed by each recipient on Christmas Eve lifts the procedure beyond the routine.
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The last time I gave vaccines was to Marines as a fourth-year medical student at the Newport, Rhode Island, Naval Station. Now, two decades later, I was volunteering to provide COVID-19 vaccines to hospital employees on Christmas Eve.
Danielle Poulin, a registered nurse who works in the COVID intensive care unit at Maine Medical Center, receives a vaccination from Dr. Christina DeMatteo on Dec. 18. A physician who volunteered to inoculate MMC employees on Dec. 24 perceived “a burden beginning to lift.”