Doctors refusing to see patients not vaccinated.

[painterswife]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...01-29-17-06-21

I think this is an interesting turn in this situation.

"LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting room and on Facebook: His practice will no longer see children whose parents won't get them vaccinated."

[frogmammy]

Well, their choice to get a vac or not, and the doctor's choice to see them or not. I have no problem.

Mon

[NamasteMama]

I wouldn't want to see a doctor who forcefully requires medications anyways.

[Rectifier]

Finally a sensible way to draw a line in the sand over this "issue."

The owner of an unvaccinated dog has long given up the right to take their animal places where it may endanger the health of others.

[ksfarmer]

Originally Posted by NamasteMama

I wouldn't want to see a doctor who forcefully requires medications anyways.

Why go to a doctor if you don't intend to follow his advise anyway? A waste of your time and his. He could be attending to patients he can help.

[MO_cows]

It's very practical. There are a lot of adults who were not vaccinated against chicken pox, mumps, measles and the like, and the consequences of contracting them as an adult can be a lot worse than for a child. Not all those vaccinations were available when I was a kid and I'm only 50-something. Probably anybody over 40 would be in the same boat.

I suffered thru chicken pox, have the scars to prove it, and just can't wait until it takes its final revenge on me as shingles. I also had the mumps and what they used to call the "3 day" measles, apparently a milder version but it was miserable at the time. I was vaccinated against polio, scarlet fever and I think whooping cough, whatever the standards were in the 60s.

During the time when virtually everyone was vaccinated we had a "herd immunity". But the growing number of people who are anti-vaccination, but yet don't they keep to themselves like the Amish, are letting a lot of diseases get a strong foothold again. And the more people who get the diseases, the more likely they are to mutate to where the vaccines are less effective. it's a snowball effect.

So this doctor, by segregating his practice, is doing his part to not grow the snowball on his watch.

[Cygnet]

There are a number of babies (too young to vaccinate) and at least one young cancer patient in quarantine here in Arizona because a measles patient went to an urgent care and exposed everyone else in the clinic. The measles patient had never been vaccinated. It's a valid concern and I entirely agree with a doctor, particularly a pediatrician, not wanting the liability of having willfully unvaccinated children in his clinic.

I had measles as a baby, with an extremely high (life threatening) fever. I was too young (two weeks old) for the vaccine. I have life altering neurological problems, including fairly significant problems with my hearing (with the processing of sound), likely to due the fever and/or measles. The fever was high enough that it could have killed me. I caught it from someone who wasn't vaccinated.

I also know a family who didn't vaccinate for religious reasons. The kids got measles, and were fine, though they were sick puppies for awhile. The father had been vaccinated and didn't catch it, but ended up caring for several kids on his own for weeks while his wife was in the hospital and then recovering. He had to take time off work to stay with them. (Since I know I'm immune the hard way, I went over to help and babysat a few evenings so he could be with his wife in the hospital. Kids were truly miserable -- one of the girls had pneumonia.)

The mom, unvaccinated, got measles, spent a week in the hospital, nearly died, and ended up with high six figures in medical bills between her medical stay and the kids' treatment. She could have left her kids without a mother. (Of course she didn't have health insurance either, because she felt if she prayed enough God would take care of them -- they later declared bankruptcy and the taxpayers took care of them.)