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Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers
phantomfive writes "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. Pediatricians are getting tired of families avoiding vaccines, which puts their children at higher risk of disease. From the article: '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.'"
It isn't the hippies, it's the religious that are the problem. There may be a few "hippies" who carry such belief, but it would most likely be motivated by their religious/spiritual beliefs. I'm sure you'll take care to note diseases like polio may have already been eradicated like smallpox was except for fatwas by Islam and even more bizarrely devolved Christians.
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Doctors want unquestioning obedience. They don't want their authority to be challenged.
Even if you do vaccinate your child, you'd best run from any doctor who gets rid of these patients.
BTW, some of these diseases really are quite extinct in the US. Getting infected is about as likely as getting hit by lightening. It's not unreasonable to decide that the vaccine risk (yes, there is risk) isn't worthwhile. It's not unreasonable to notice the political aspects of vaccines, with all the industry lobbying, and decide that the pro-vaccine messages are inherently untrustworthy.
"It's hard enough for doctors to make a living[.]" Are you f-ing kidding me? Doctors are one of the richest professions in the US. In fact, around of 30% of doctors is in the top 1% of income earners in the US. The fact that they are turning away business should be a clear indicator that they are under little financial hardship. When's the last time you saw an adjunct professor turn down classes at a community college because s/he didn't like the students work ethic or some other thing like that? Doctors having trouble making a living, now that is rich.