Straight from the Docs Mouth

[dswmom]

In response to the recent House Bill that was passed in Texas allowing parents the right to make a conscientious objection to vaccinations, a news article quoted several doctors who were upset with this bill. Mainly, they believe that vaccines are one of the biggest breakthroughs in modern medicine. Here's the take on it from one of the doctors interviewed..
Dr. Tom Spurgat, medical director of the Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, called the move a "huge mistake." He noted that vaccines not only prevent disease in people who receive them, but they also protect those who come into contact with unvaccinated people.
Spurgat said parents who don't want their children vaccinated because of conscientious objections often are victims of unscientific information that serves as a scare tactic against immunizations.
"It's a shame these people are operating off so much misinformation," he said. "They're putting their children at risk and they're putting my children at risk."

Now, how are his children at risk from nonvaxed children? He just said they are protected if they come into contact with nonvaxed people. Talk about misinformation. And he's speaking as if those who are not vaxed walk around full of all the diseases that kids get vaxed for. WTF??? :angry

It's so amazing how many doctors don't have all the hard facts about what vaccines can do. And it sickens me how easily they can perpetuate fear in those parents who don't trust their own judgment.:bang

Oh the frustration....

[Evergreen]

:bang Doncha know, doctors know EVERYTHING.

[catlvr976]

That's one thing I don't get either. I read about people who say that the nonvaxed kids are the ones putting their vaxed kids at risk. I don't get it. That's what these kids were vaxed for, to supposedly keep them from getting sick.

My dd has been vaxed so fully so far, however, with the research I've been doing, I'm starting to doubt finishing. I myself am fully vaxed, but never once would I be or have been uncomfortable being around an unvaxed person.

I don't get it.

[mom2tig99Nroo03]

there are a few holes there, lol

[miriam]

Doctors are G-d.

They know everything.

That is why I stay away from them.

[liam's mom]

Ugh! That is my biggest pet peeve about vaxes. If they're so wonderful and so beneficial, and if they work so well, why the worry about vaxed kids coming into contact with unvaxed kids? It shouldn't be a concern if you believe vaxes do what they're purported to do.

That really frustrates me. And from a doctor, too. :hammer

[MelKnee]

Spurgat said parents who don't want their children vaccinated because of conscientious objections often are victims of unscientific information that serves as a scare tactic against immunizations.
"It's a shame these people are operating off so much misinformation," he said.

This is what stood out to me.

I wonder what he thinks the motivation of anti-vaccine web sites is? It certainly isn't profit. No one makes money from NOT vaccinating. They simply provide alternate interpretations of the data.

[PJsmomma]

My Dr said I might want to be worried about my son being in the church nursery with other kids (my son is unvaccinated) and i didn't think til later I should have said "Oh, you mean I should be worried about my son being around vaccinated kids?"

How come no one else (media /general public) sees the Dr isn't making much sense?

[M&M-mom]

Wow, it is sad to not be able to talk to a dr about medical advice. Unfornately, it has taken me 32 years to realize I have to do the research myself.
Someone recently asked their ped. if they should switch to organic milk and the dr. answered "If you want short kids" like the growth hormones in milk is a good thing.

[Boobs]

Wow, it is sad to not be able to talk to a dr about medical advice. Unfornately, it has taken me 32 years to realize I have to do the research myself.
Someone recently asked their ped. if they should switch to organic milk and the dr. answered "If you want short kids" like the growth hormones in milk is a good thing.

I don't know why I'm shocked to hear that, but I am! How could a dr be so ignorant?

[chersolly]

They're only concerned about their wallets.:irked:

[Gitti]

No, they had years of brain washing and as a result are more afraid of natural childhood diseases than your average great-grandmother.

[HeatherHeather]

No, they had years of brain washing and as a result are more afraid of natural childhood diseases than your average great-grandmother.

:yeah:

[LongIsland]

Someone recently asked their ped. if they should switch to organic milk and the dr. answered "If you want short kids"

What an idiot. If people only knew half the crap that goes on in dairy farms and pharmacuetical plants:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/wlcfm/full_text.cfm?full_text=dairy

[paquerette]

Someone recently asked their ped. if they should switch to organic milk and the dr. answered "If you want short kids" like the growth hormones in milk is a good thing.
:lol Didn't do me any good all those years. What, he thinks they put it in there like the vitamin-enriched orange juice and the folic acid enriched flour? Yeesh. :shake