Anyone see this? re: Pro Vax Pedi

[AJL]

This popped in my news feed. If it's legit, than major applause to him!

[ttt]

Snopes says...maybe.

www.snopes.com/info/news/ginsberg.asp

[jln]

That's a pedi I would go to. Good for him.

[thecatinthehat]

From the New Yorker 

[heyjude]

I don't think I believe it. Also calling CPS? No.

[heyjude]

Feb 3, 2015 17:02:24 GMT -5 mockingbird said:

Feb 3, 2015 16:56:10 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I don't think I believe it. Also calling CPS? No.

No because it makes it less believable, or no because you disagree with calling cps?

I don't think its believable that a doc would spend his time calling CPS because of vaccines. Also I think you can get into trouble if you engage CPS this way...?

And I don't think getting CPS involved is the right approach here. No matter how hard lined pro Vax I am. This would backfire spectacularly.

[redheadbaker]

This one may be fake, but the practice we just (sadly) left, due to moving, would not see patients whose parents refused vaccinations for any reason other than medical necessity. I don't know if they allowed a delayed schedule. The practice was part of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia network, so they saw a lot of kids with serious diseases that left them immuno-compromised.

[devonpow]

This is how my pedi is. When we first called years ago to find if she was taking new patients they told me over the phone that we would need to vaccinate on the earliest recommended vaccine schedule or we would not be allowed to be patients.

DS2 had a bad reaction to his first MMR dose (terrible rash) and I had to ask her to delat his second dose by 2 weeks just because of a wedding we were traveling to and I didn't want to deal with the rash for it and I was scared, lol! They mean business at my practice.

[chickadee77]

Sounds like our pedi, though I don't know if she would contact CPS. She does a lot of work in developing countries, and won't make any compromises when it comes to vaccines.

[thejackpot]

Yeah this may be false but my pedi only allows you to remain a patient if you vaccinate on schedule. I fully support that policy.

[heyjude]

For the record I absolutely believe there are peds who refuse to see patients who don't VAX. And good for them. But this FB-y message about calling CPS? Don't buy it.

[meshaliuknits]

Our pedi will only allow opt out for flu and chicken pox for non-medical reasons.

[memenee]

Does this look like the same guy?

www.northbay.org/doctors/our-doctors/phys421.cfm