(Your Life Magazine) It’s not unusual for a patient to change doctors. Doctors retire, families move, insurance changes. And sometimes, patients get fired. “Discharging parents from a practice is never easy,” says Thomas Tryon, a pediatrician at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo. “I never did it without disappointment that I’d somehow failed to communicate enough with the family.”
But done it he has, as have other pediatricians. Missed appointments, rude or threatening behavior and nonpayment of bills are some of the reasons cited — but one that’s becoming increasingly common is parents’ refusal to allow their children to be vaccinated.
Read the article HERE.
Matt, this has been going on for many years. In fact, the AAP had to issue guidelines asking doctors to NOT put patients out over it, it’s become so common and is highly controversial. Before moving here, I had to go through a lot of docs to find one that would even allow me to ask questions, much less actually be a parent and make medical decisions for my own child. Most docs, you actually have to beg just to get to see the package insert. The line from the article is quite telling: “When it comes to medical decisions, “I’m not of the mind-set that the consumer should be in charge,” she says.” That says it all. Most parents are finding that non-peditricians are the doctors most likely to work with a family on delayed, alternate or reduced vaccine schedules. General practice or family practice doctors are far more willing to be a partner in your child’s health care than a pediatrician in most of the country now. Peds are paid bonuses on their vaccination rate and receive large kick-backs from the pharmaceutical companies, hence the big push to make sure they are over 90% with patients in compliance and up to date.
And, btw, the doc that’s so upset over pertussis in that article should know that you never develop immunity to pertussis, vaccinated or not, no matter how many times you catch it and the research shows that the vaccine has largely failed what it was supposed to do.
I’d like to see a reference on that ineffective pertussis research. Too often quotes like that refer to articles in offshoot alternate health magazines dealing with individual’s theories and observations rather than valid research.
It’s not the vaccine its the fluoride. No sorry wrong again, it’s the public school system. Wait, crap, I forgot about the homosexual agenda.
Sorry, Jerry. No dice. That comes from the CDC’s own data plus multiple published studies. Multiple studies have placed it between 70-80% within 1 year of a shot. Over a person’s lifetime it’s very poor effectiveness rates IF the person has received all required shots plus boosters for their entire lifetime (in other words, every 10 years for the rest of your life). Lower if you have not, and the vast majority of people in the US haven’t. Some studies have shown the booster for adults were failing at 4 years. In other words, after you receive the shot, you rapidly loose the immunity to it. However, if you catch it wild, you have about 20 year’s immunity to it according to published studies.
The recent outbreaks have occurred predominantly among vaccinated populations, or partially vaccinated if the children weren’t old enough yet to have had all of the shots.
In addition, the pertussis vaccine has no effect on B. parapertussis. You need a lab to tell them apart. And there are strains of pertussis that no vaccine works against, either.
The majority of older children and adults who catch pertussis will never be diagnosed because they do not develop the characteristic ‘whoop’ or have the long coughing spells. It’s misdiagnosed as a URI. 40% of parapertussis infections are completely symptomless.
Finally, one study showed exclusive breastfeeding to be a better pertussis preventative than the vaccine among 8 month old infants.