Kathianne
11-14-2016, 06:14 AM
This is good to hear. If you choose to not vaccinate your healthy child, keep them away from practices where medically fragile children are likely to be. You go to the clinics with parents that feel just like you do, build those natural immune systems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/parents-are-insisting-on-doctors-who-insist-on-vaccinations/2016/11/12/81c1a684-a202-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html
Parents are insisting on doctors who insist on vaccinations By Lena H. Sun (http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/lena-h-sun) November 12
Pediatricians around the country, faced with persistent opposition to childhood vaccinations, are increasingly grappling with the difficult decision of whether to dismiss those families from their practices to protect their other patients.
Doctors say they are more willing to take this last-resort step because the anti-vaccine movement in recent years has contributed to a resurgence of preventable childhood diseases such as measles, (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/how-the-u-s-went-from-eliminating-measles-to-a-measles-outbreak-at-disneyland/) mumps and whooping cough. Their practices also have been emboldened by families who say they will only choose physicians who require other families to vaccinate.
But the decision is ethically fraught. Doctors must balance their obligation to care for individual children against the potential harm to other patients. They must respect parents’ right to make their own medical decisions. And they need to consider the public health consequences of a refusal to treat, which could result in non-vaccinating families clustered in certain practices, raising the risk of disease outbreaks.
Until recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics considered it unacceptable to refuse families for not vaccinating.
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Some of the heightened appreciation of vaccines grew out of a 2015 measles outbreak (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/17/authorities-still-trying-to-determine-how-measles-outbreak-began-at-disney-theme-parks/?tid=a_inl)that started at Disneyland in California. A single, unvaccinated child with measles led to the infection of 131 people, many of whom also were unvaccinated. One infected adult who visited several hospitals ended up exposing 98 infants, 14 pregnant women and 237 hospital employees, according to the California Department of Public Health.
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For years, the official position of the AAP was not to dismiss vaccine-resistant families. But recently, the AAP recognized what many individual pediatricians have been wrestling with on an ad hoc basis. This summer, it announced for the first time that dismissal is now an acceptable option if doctors have exhausted counseling efforts.
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The AAP found that pediatricians are increasingly likely to dismiss families who refuse vaccinations. In 2013, nearly 1 in 8 pediatricians reported that they always do so, twice as many as in 2006, according to a study comparing the survey results published this summer in Pediatrics.
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The modern anti-vaccine movement began in 1998, when a medical journal published a study suggesting a link between vaccines and autism. The study was later revealed to be an elaborate fraud (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347), and scores of studies from around the world since then have shown conclusively that vaccines do not cause autism. Every relevant scientific (http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2004/immunization-safety-review-vaccines-and-autism.aspx) and medical organization (https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/immunizations/Pages/Vaccine-Studies-Examine-the-Evidence.aspx)has examined the evidence and concluded that vaccines are safe and effective and that the real danger lies in skipping or delaying them.
Conspiracy theories against vaccines tend to be strongest in politically extreme communities suspicious of modern medicine, such as fundamentalist conservatives or back-to-nature liberals. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has made ambiguous comments about vaccines (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/), and during a televised Republican primary debate, President-elect Donald Trump claimed that vaccines cause autism (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/17/the-origins-of-donald-trumps-autismvaccine-theory-and-how-it-was-completely-debunked-eons-ago/). Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has been mentioned by Trump as a potential secretary of Health and Human Services, has said he would consider alternate vaccine schedules from the current protocol.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/parents-are-insisting-on-doctors-who-insist-on-vaccinations/2016/11/12/81c1a684-a202-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html
Parents are insisting on doctors who insist on vaccinations By Lena H. Sun (http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/lena-h-sun) November 12
Pediatricians around the country, faced with persistent opposition to childhood vaccinations, are increasingly grappling with the difficult decision of whether to dismiss those families from their practices to protect their other patients.
Doctors say they are more willing to take this last-resort step because the anti-vaccine movement in recent years has contributed to a resurgence of preventable childhood diseases such as measles, (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/23/how-the-u-s-went-from-eliminating-measles-to-a-measles-outbreak-at-disneyland/) mumps and whooping cough. Their practices also have been emboldened by families who say they will only choose physicians who require other families to vaccinate.
But the decision is ethically fraught. Doctors must balance their obligation to care for individual children against the potential harm to other patients. They must respect parents’ right to make their own medical decisions. And they need to consider the public health consequences of a refusal to treat, which could result in non-vaccinating families clustered in certain practices, raising the risk of disease outbreaks.
Until recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics considered it unacceptable to refuse families for not vaccinating.
...
Some of the heightened appreciation of vaccines grew out of a 2015 measles outbreak (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/17/authorities-still-trying-to-determine-how-measles-outbreak-began-at-disney-theme-parks/?tid=a_inl)that started at Disneyland in California. A single, unvaccinated child with measles led to the infection of 131 people, many of whom also were unvaccinated. One infected adult who visited several hospitals ended up exposing 98 infants, 14 pregnant women and 237 hospital employees, according to the California Department of Public Health.
...
For years, the official position of the AAP was not to dismiss vaccine-resistant families. But recently, the AAP recognized what many individual pediatricians have been wrestling with on an ad hoc basis. This summer, it announced for the first time that dismissal is now an acceptable option if doctors have exhausted counseling efforts.
...
The AAP found that pediatricians are increasingly likely to dismiss families who refuse vaccinations. In 2013, nearly 1 in 8 pediatricians reported that they always do so, twice as many as in 2006, according to a study comparing the survey results published this summer in Pediatrics.
...
The modern anti-vaccine movement began in 1998, when a medical journal published a study suggesting a link between vaccines and autism. The study was later revealed to be an elaborate fraud (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347), and scores of studies from around the world since then have shown conclusively that vaccines do not cause autism. Every relevant scientific (http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2004/immunization-safety-review-vaccines-and-autism.aspx) and medical organization (https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/immunizations/Pages/Vaccine-Studies-Examine-the-Evidence.aspx)has examined the evidence and concluded that vaccines are safe and effective and that the real danger lies in skipping or delaying them.
Conspiracy theories against vaccines tend to be strongest in politically extreme communities suspicious of modern medicine, such as fundamentalist conservatives or back-to-nature liberals. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has made ambiguous comments about vaccines (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/), and during a televised Republican primary debate, President-elect Donald Trump claimed that vaccines cause autism (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/17/the-origins-of-donald-trumps-autismvaccine-theory-and-how-it-was-completely-debunked-eons-ago/). Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has been mentioned by Trump as a potential secretary of Health and Human Services, has said he would consider alternate vaccine schedules from the current protocol.
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