Posted on 02/15/2012 1:10:19 PM PST by FewsOrange
Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems increasingly are "firing" such families from their practices, raising questions about a doctor's responsibility to these patients.
Medical associations don't recommend such patient bans, but the practice appears to be growing, according to vaccine researchers.
In a study of Connecticut pediatricians published last year, some 30% of 133 doctors said they had asked a family to leave their practice for vaccine refusal, and a recent survey of 909 Midwestern pediatricians found that 21% reported discharging families for the same reason.
By comparison, in 2001 and 2006 about 6% of physicians said they "routinely" stopped working with families ...
Most pediatricians consider preventing disease through vaccines a primary goal of their job. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and AAP issue an annual recommended vaccination schedule, but some parents ask if their child's immunizations can be pushed back or skipped altogether, pediatricians say. While rates for several key inoculations in young children rose between 2009 and 2010, according to the CDC, lower immunization rates have been blamed as a factor in U.S. outbreaks of whooping cough and measles in recent years.
Parents often voice concerns about autism or that their child's immune system may be overwhelmed by too many vaccines at once. Worries about a link between vaccines and autism arose because some parents noticed their children regressed, or lost some skills, around the time of their vaccinations at two years of age. Another concern centered on the former use of mercury as a vaccine preservative.
Numerous studies since have dispelled these concerns among scientists. Rather, scientists say, it is more likely that autism symptoms begin showing up around the same age children are vaccinated.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
why not just make dead virus vaccines without the preservatives and eliminate the complaints?
Even if it has to be special orded it seems a reasonable solution.
Pretty much. As the full implementation of the Health Care Reform Act gets nearer, expect physicians to drop anyone who has ever smoked or has any non compliant behavior. The law has too many financial disincentives for doctors and hospitals to take on patients who have a high chance of chronic illness. Kind of a stealth rationing program. Better pick out your ice floes while the selection is good!
If you’ve got a waiting room with unprotected coughing you’ve got a stupid doctor. Also, if your kid has had innoculations then why are you worried?
“My guess this is being done on the advice of lawyers.”
Probably.
My wife is a doctor and fires patients who won’t follow her advice. They always cause trouble and end up sick and blaming the doctor.
Yes but you could make the same argument on the other side.
Doctors have been sued numerous times for vaccinating kids and having severe/fatal reactions to vaccines. Most notably HPV vaccine. Or infants who get so many vaccines at once that it’s too much for the body to deal with without causing problems.
I am sure that was based on legal advice they had currently been told by lawyers and they still got sued for giving vaccines.
And I have yet to find one single case of parents who have researched the “why” behind not wanting their kids vaccinated, to sue a doctor they told not to vaccinate their kid. The whole point is they don’t want the kid vaccinated. They WANT the doctor not to do anything. If the doctor vaccinates when they don’t want them to, THAT is the point where they would rightfully sue the doctor.
The dunderheads in the media (and I think too many docs unfortunately) seem to think the “autism” link is the only reason for refusal, as if there are no other good reasons like:
* use of fetal cell lines from abortions
* use of adjuvants other than mercury, like aluminum
* use of egg or other allergens
* the sheer aggressiveness of piggybacked vaccines
* vaccinations for normal, non-fatal childhood diseases (chickenpox)
* Gardasil (need I say more)
Vaccines are not panaceas. Every vaccination is a cost benefit analysis that has to be weighed individually.
I do a combo homeschool/Christian School in California - California has a great waiver program - you just sign you philosophically disagree and that’s the end of it.
Well gee, if your kid is vaccinated what the heck do you have to worry about? Perhaps the fact vaccines have never been guaranteed to provide immunity?
You talk about even if the risk is low, why take it? That’s exactly what the parents who decide not to vacinate their kids believe too, about vaccines. There are risks to every vaccine, and some have higher risks than others, but why take it if you don’t have to?
Unless you are for forcing people to take vaccines so that you can believe you are safer. I would hope you aren’t that kind of ends-justifies-the-means socialist type of person.
“Also, if your kid has had innoculations then why are you worried?”
Because herd immunity is the primary method immunizations work.
Fire them?
Wait just a minute! When one goes to a doctor you hire him/her!!! That doctor did not “fire” you he/she said “I quit”.
I personally would not give that employee a good reference in the future. After all if I tell my employee that I don’t want that shot then I don’t want that shot.
I don’t think raising questions in this manner is radical or extreme in any way. Vaccine proponents should have nothing to fear from an open and honest discussion since they believe the evidence to be on their side.
The way they mock and deride most people who ask them to defend the status quo is shameful.
They are marketed as if you take them you won’t ever catch what you’ve been immunized for. That is simply not true.
More and more doctors and nurses have stopped vaccinating their kids or have skipped some of the vaccines for their kids.
Most adults have had far fewer vaccines, spaced further apart across the years, than todays kids. In my day there were about 5-6 vaccines. Not there are over 20. Then there are sexual vaccines that Merck needs to make money on.
To say these vaccines never get contaminated, anyone about Merck and the SV-40 viruses in their polio vaccines that THEY KNEW ABOUT and didn’t do jack sh1t about? That have led to a bunch of cancers and where many believe AIDS evolved from?
That no doctor ever used expired vaccines on people? That no doctor ever gave a vaccine that was supposed to be dead but still had live viruses that wound up giving the person the illness, sometimes a permanent one (again, polio) and others? That they have never found live viruses in vaccines that were assured to be dead viruses?
There’s plenty of reasons to seriously consider NOT taking vaccines. I don’t take vaccines so everyone else can be happy and think they are safer. I’d take them for ME, and then only if I knew they were safe and not made from aborted baby stem cell lines.
“Good. Hopefully knock some sense into these parents”
Whose money do you think it was that shoved this Obamacare garbage down our throats?
Parents who already Have some sense are the ones refusing Pharma owned medicine by bureaucratic, CYA checklist. Gardasil for boys?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2797779/posts
At least read the cafepharma thread by Merck Employees about what a pile of S**t their Gardasil and their Company are at comment 29.
http://www.cafepharma.com/boards/showthread.php?t=476247
We end up getting all the major vaccines and some that are less significant, but I like being able to work with a doctor and say, “We’d rather get this one on the next visit,” or “We don’t think this is necessary because of our limited exposure to disease vectors.”
Both doctors and patients (i.e., customers) should be able to decide whom they’ll do business with.
And this is the flaw of vaccines. It shows they really don’t work that well at all. Not if everyone else has to have it too. Otherwise if they worked so well, the ones who were vaccinated would have nothing to worry about.
Given the fact that drug makers know they are selling expensive prescription drugs that at best, work on only 50% of those that take them, and I’ve seen a senior pharma guy admit this in an interview, are we surprised that vaccines really don’t work that well?
Have you read the articles discussing the fact that the majority of flu cases each year are in people who have taken the flu vaccine? The one year they totally messed up the batches and said they wouldn’t work against the flu that year, so hardly anyone took it - as it’d truly be worthless - the flu deaths went down greatly. The year I believe was 2007-8 (it’s in the oughts) and the very year most elderly didn’t get vaccinated was the year elderly flu deaths were shockingly low.
Yes there is, you can call Luddite Medical Services at 555-1212.
“And this is the flaw of vaccines. It shows they really don’t work that well at all.”
Yeah, I miss iron lungs from polio and smallpox, too.
The good old days, you know?
Yes, exactly. All good points.
My doc is not pleased with me for not accepting a statin drug for cholesterol. He even pleaded with me and said he would “make” his own wife take it if he had to. I told him point blank: Okay, fire me. He didn’t, but probably doesn’t care too much now that I don’t have health insurance.
“Look at the explosion of disorders in school aged children”
Bad parenting.
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