He Saw Specialist After Specialist. He Died When No One Gave Him a Flu Shot.

Dr. Carroll is a pediatrician and the president and chief executive of AcademyHealth, which tracks the cancellations of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality research grants.

Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them. For Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatrician in Colorado, it was a teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system who got a flu vaccine each year. One year, a stretch of medical visits and hospitalizations crowded out that routine care, and the vaccine got missed. The child caught influenza, the virus led to a........

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