I am a patient of the Sansum Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, where I am undergoing daily treatments. I was extremely distressed to read in the September 23 Indy issue that one of the Ridley-Tree doctors, Dr. Mark Abate , is not only not vaccinated for COVID-19 but refuses to be vaccinated. This man is endangering my life!
By not being vaccinated he has a much higher probability (by a factor of 4 to 1) of being infected by COVID, and therefore a much higher probability of passing it on to me or to other patients of Sansum. Sansum Clinic should remove this doctor from contact with patients at all of its facilities. He should not be allowed to endanger patients!
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