I have worked at a few offices as well. I refer to it as general vs specific. Generally, a vaccine is safe and keeps people safe. Specifically a person might have some health problems, or the vaccine will effect that person in a different way than expected. Most immunologists work off of that expectation, and put it into their theories. If 5 million people get the vaccine, 100 will have an adverse response to it.

So the doctor is working off of what is generally good advice vs what this specific patient needs. The doctor usually works off of what they expect things to be like, and general answers for everything. The more rare the disease the less he will expect it or even know it exists. This is why spinal issues and heart tissue problems are so rarely talked about, because the few people who can treat it are so rare, and thus have a small clientele.

I've seen patients with obvious problems, and the doctor believes it to be a thing, but the labs and others don't know how to recognize or deal with these problems, so they called him an idiot. I've straight up seen good doctors be called quacks because a lab couldn't recognize a problem.

So, the culture really pushes the general answer over the specific as much as possible.

I think in this case, someone with a degree in microbiology will have the knowledge to inform himself and educate his doctor. However, the bands response is the usual thing I have seen in medical circles.

Man, I have to be so generic here because of HIPPA regulations.