Vijay Sikand

Don't bother to park the car.

Hand your keys to the attendant and jump on, which is what I did.

So that in itself was hairy.

I get on the ferry.

We cross Long Island Sound and reach this lovely restaurant.

There's a whole bunch of doctors, about 40 of them, gathered to hear about the Lyme vaccine.

And I start my talk always by showing photographs of the disease and just a little education about the disease itself.

And then what we did in the study, what did we find?

How did we do it?

Why is it safe, et cetera, and how to go about giving it to your patients.

So even though I was sponsored by the company that makes the vaccine to give the talk, I spent at least half the time just teaching them stuff.

About the disease.

And that's the fun I get out of it.

So we had a nice dinner and a nice evening.

And then I was tapped on the shoulder.

I think it might have been during dessert.

I was tapped on the shoulder by this person who worked for the pharmaceutical company.

He said, I want to have a word with you.

And so we ducked into a hallway, and then I find out the vaccine's been pulled.

I'd just gotten through a lecture to about 40 physicians about the vaccine and how great it was for their patients.