Tuesday, January 29, 2008

"Okay Docs, here's what you do...nod along and act respectful...

but whatever you do, don't educate yourself with anything outside what we give you? Ya hear? That's a good boy, now here's your kickback."

If your pediatrician tells you he won't see your family if you refuse certain or all vaccines consider yourself lucky he showed you his true colors and get out of there like a bat out of hell. Also...if he pats your tummy? Smack him.

http://www.pediatricnews.com/article/PIIS0031398X08700079/fulltext
Do your homework and decide for yourself if the benefits outweigh the risk. Your baby, your terms. Period.

P.S. I wonder how the drug companies knew all the right questions for the actors to ask? Hmm....apparently they've done their homework?

4 comments:

Carrie Wilson Link said...

Just sent this to everyone I know.

Forewarned is fore armed.

Kathryn said...

My pediatrician told me that my kid could not come back to his office, and he could not go to school, etc. I wish I had been as educated then as now, but water under the bridge now.

Stacy said...

The PLUS??!!!
As a single hippie mom, I was bullied by social services when my boys were 7 and 5 to immunize. If I didn't, they'd see to it they were taken from me. I cannot believe these people. Thank GOD, my children are well. So scary. It was the mid eighties, a big Thimerasol time right? I believe waiting well beyond infancy helped them to be unaffected.

aka Cate said...

I feel so sorry for any mum or dad who gets bullied or patronised by doctors. As a nurse I soon discovered that doctors are not God after seeing all the cock ups they made (and tried to weezle out of).

It makes me even more thankful for the good relationship I have with my own specialist.