Why do docs seem to always reccommend the HIB - Page 2

[mamakay]

Originally Posted by blondajo

Does anyone know if there is any financial ties to these vaccines. I wonder if doctors get large kickbacks from these two being that they are not part of the "mandated" vaccine schedule. I thought I had read this before. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh, when I say kickbacks, I mean "medical conferences" in which the pharmaceutical companies send doctors to places like the Carri bean along with their entire family. I have witnessed this because my neighbor is a doctor.

I honestly think it's just that, as uncommon as bacterial meningitis is, it's one of the more common catastrophic illnesses that a ped will see.
And on the rare occasion that it does happen, the docs just feel helpless and it's really tragic.
So the fact that they can give a shot that's supposed to prevent it satifies some deep psychological need they have to be "doing something".
And they want the shot to be a cure-all preventive so badly that they just can't think straight about the issue.
That's my theory, at least.

[Plummeting]

Originally Posted by blondajo

Does anyone know if there is any financial ties to these vaccines. I wonder if doctors get large kickbacks from these two being that they are not part of the "mandated" vaccine schedule. I thought I had read this before. Correct me if I'm wrong.

They actually are mandated for preschool in some states. I don't think docs get kickbacks for selling the vaccines. I think they see how serious invasive Hib disease can be and they know parents will bite when they say the word "meningitis," so they recommend the vaccine. We are military and use the pediatricians at the military treatment facility. There's no way they could possibly get kickbacks, because the military buys all the vaccines and pharmaceutical companies never know which doctors "sell" what vaccines. But when DD was three months old and I went in with a plan, the doc still talked me into Hib and Prevnar, even though I didn't originally plan on getting them. I know for a fact she wasn't getting a kickback.

[ParisAnne]

Originally Posted by TanyaS

The pedi we had when we first decided not to vaccinate told me that hib was the one he would strongly recommend. He had been a ped for 20 years, and he said it's the one vaccine that he's witnessed working. He said he'd seen a decrease in meningitis cases after the vaccine was introduced. This pedi is one that was highly respectful of my choice, so no flames, please. I know nearly every doctor has just one vaccine that they swear by. But, even if the Hib vaccine is effective it still does not address the increase in other types of meningitis post-hib vaccine.

Our ped was cool with us not vaxing (previous ped, now we see a naturopath) and Hib was the one thing he recommended, so we went ahead and got it since it didn't have any thermasil (mercury?) in it. We followed through with that series and that's all our dd 5 has. He felt like it was the most dangerous for little ones.

[umami_mommy]

Originally Posted by blondajo

Carri bean along with their entire family.

what's a carri bean?

[blondajo]

The Carribean Islands such as Aruba. There should have been an omitted space in that word, oops.

[umami_mommy]

Originally Posted by blondajo

The Carribean Islands such as Aruba. There should have been an omitted space in that word, oops.

oh you mean the caribbean islands!!! wow i so missed that!! a place not a seed!