Welcome to the Mona Charrin show. I'm delighted to be joined today by Dr. Paul Offutt.

Dr. Offett is one of the nation's foremost experts on vaccines and vaccine misinformation.

He is the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, and he's the author of countless scholarly

articles, as well as a number of general circulation books on health vaccines, and where modern

medicine has gotten things wrong. His most recent book is Deadly Choices, How the Anti-Vacine Movement Threatens Us All.

Dr. Offutt, thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you.

I'd like to just begin by setting the stage and asking you to tell our listeners a little bit about yourself,

how you became interested in medicine, and specifically, what drew you

to the whole vaccine debate? Well, I think the real answer to that question is I'm a child of the

50s. When I was five years old, I had a operation of my right foot that didn't go well. It was sort of a congenital

abnormality. And so it landed me in a chronic care facility and orthopedic facility called

Kernan's Hospital for crippled children, because those back in years when you could use

words like crippled and feeble-minded in the name of children's hospitals.

So I was there for about six weeks.

And when you're in a chronic care facility in the mid-1950s, you're in a polio ward.

So I remember polio.

You know, there was one visiting hour a week.

I remember children in our lungs.

I remember the so-called Sister Kenny hot pack treatments where they would take these excruciatingly hot packs and put them on with their arms and legs.

So children were screaming.

It was really Dickens book.

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