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.'"

Comments

Re:Consider me fired.

[avandesande]

That's the rub though- vaccines used to be for life threatening diseases like polio and smallpox but are now more and more prescribed for things that are merely a nuisance(chicken pox anyone?).
 

Re:It is about time

[VortexCortex]

FYI not all hippies are against it. I'm an old hippy, and I think people who are refusing them are goddamned idiots.

Can you explain exactly how vaccines work at the cellular level? I can, and I WILL NOT take some vaccines... Get informed you FUDster.

Re:Consider me fired.

[BitZtream]

You should look at statistics a little closers.

The shot makes many sick.

Many get sick even with having the shot as the shot is for a strain that isn't always the popular one that year.

The statistics show flu shots are dumb in almost every sense, and thats completely ignoring the fact that all we're actually doing is making the flu viruses more adapt at kicking our ass.

Vaccines only work if you irradicate the virus from the population. Don't iradicate it, it mutates and your vaccine becomes useless AND your body can't do anything about it either. NOW you're in trouble.