//Doctor recounts not getting flu shot, being put on life support

Doctor recounts not getting flu shot, being put on life support

A Maryland doctor’s story will make you think twice about putting off getting the flu vaccine.Dr. Susan Lipton knows infectious diseases. She’s the director of pediatric infectious diseases at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and chairwoman of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the Maryland state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.Foregoing the flu shot as a young woman changed Lipton’s life.”I was a 24-year-old