No More Vaccines at Pedi's office

[MrsMB]

Are you from around that area? I know this place.

[simpsongal]

The docs of that practice should lose their medical licenses.

ETA: My mom has concerns over vaccines.  This may be a low blow, but I like to remind her how her sister died of operable/treatable cancer at age 50 b/c homeopathic remedies were the way to go, not big medicine b/c she bought into this junk science bullsh*t.  Now she has a granddaughter she'll never meet - it's been 7+ years and it still makes me very angry. 

[ilikedonuts]

I hope they lose their licenses. What the fuck.

[cmarie11]

Huh?

[CheeringCharm]

This is a doctor's office releasing this? 

[sunshine608]

A google search makes me thing this isn't really a pediatricians office- the first link on their "specialties" is to Botox- along with colon hyrdotherpay makes this seem like a strip mall medical office.

[simpsongal]

Jun 2, 2016 7:41:34 GMT -5 @pennypie said:

I have so many things to say about something in point #1, but I just can't. GRRRRRRRR.

Didn't you hear?  Anecdotal evidence and feelings are the new science.

[boxerdog]

These can't be real doctors. I cannot accept that they would be this stupid!

[spk926]

I would be in the market for a new pediatrician office STAT!

[womet]

Jun 2, 2016 7:41:34 GMT -5 @pennypie said:

I have so many things to say about something in point #1, but I just can't. GRRRRRRRR.

Same here. These things make me so incredibly mad. 

[bbonanza]

I have no words ^o)

[miamigirl]

Oh FFS

[zarapipe]

Wow, this is crazy. This has to be like a backyard doctor right? I can't even imagine

[degal99]

And the MD there has an MPH? Did he miss all of the public health classes? Maybe he took biostats and skipped all the epi classes?

Just... what the hell?

[rbp]

This post is making my head explode, so I will just say this: Andrew Wakefield's Lancet paper was, in fact, retracted on account of falsified data. His medical license was revoked. Anyone who brings up his work as "evidence" against vaccines gets an instant dismissal from me.

[Deleted]

But but INGREDIENTS! ::eye roll::

[bowies]

Report to the state licensing board. Holy shit.

[bowies]

Jun 2, 2016 7:58:20 GMT -5 degal99 said:

And the MD there has an MPH? Did he miss all of the public health classes? Maybe he took biostats and skipped all the epi classes?

Just... what the hell?

RIGHT?!?! I'm clutching my pearls and my neighbor's too.

[redheadbaker]

Holy shit. I'd be finding a new doctor so fast. And reporting them to the licensing board.

[czarcasm]

I have a friend from the area who shared this yesterday. Someone commented on the awful grammar and she responded saying that due to her "many" years of healthcare experience (read: she sells EO) that the docs probably wrote a rough outline and had the front office staff write it up. She then talked about the docs' and nurses' education and how we should judge them based on that, rather than their writing skills.

Because how you express yourself on such an important issue isn't important. :/

Fwiw - They don't accept insurance. Not sure if that's the office's choice or not. Do ins companies have rules about vaccinating? But they do provide the forms for you to file your insurance for out of network.

[shoeless]

How is he able to maintain his license or better yet, what company is underwriting his medical malpractice insurance? I don see how any insurance company would knowingly insure a doctor who is going against medical standards?

[greycat]

Jun 2, 2016 8:00:09 GMT -5 rbp said:

This post is making my head explode, so I will just say this: Andrew Wakefield's Lancet paper was, in fact, retracted on account of falsified data. His medical license was revoked. Anyone who brings up his work as "evidence" against vaccines gets an instant dismissal from me.

Exactly! And I'm not sure how a study of 12 children could prove anything even if his methods and data were correct.

[jeaniebueller]

They seem smart.

[pinotgrig]

Jun 2, 2016 7:39:39 GMT -5 MrsMB said:

Are you from around that area? I know this place.

Isn't CS a pretty affluent area?

[MrsMB]

Jun 2, 2016 8:24:18 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

Jun 2, 2016 7:39:39 GMT -5 MrsMB said:

Are you from around that area? I know this place.

Isn't CS a pretty affluent area?

Yes. Many big-name Country and Christian recording artists have million dollar homes there. 

[biogirl21]

Fuck this doctor for propagating anti-vax fears and using scare tactics to push his agenda.

I will never understand why autism is scarier than mumps, smallpox and all the other diseases we vax for. Fuck that. Autism is not a death sentence.

[chickens987]

According to their facebook page, they do Botox!

[atlas]

I can't make it past the absurdity of point 1 to see what other absurdities there are.

[bluelikejazz]

There are *people* that "developed cervical cancer" ?!?! (for those that didn't make it past point #1, it was in point #5)

[Raggedeannie]

OMG. We just found our pediatrician for DD and I took comfort in the fact that they won't take antivaxx patients.