For many years government and health officials have been trying
to push vaccination. While childhood vaccine exemption rates
have been increasing, we have been seeing an overall increase in
the amount of people receiving the flu shot each year. There
have even been numerous occasions where legislators and others
have called for mandatory vaccinations that could affect health
care workers in particular. In fact, many pediatricians are so
angry with their patients who refuse vaccination that they are
‘firing’ patients and their families, refusing to play their
role as doctor. That’s right, pediatricians are refusing to help
parents — and their families — if they aren’t ‘responsible’
enough to vaccinate their children. One study of Connecticut
pediatricians found that some 30 percent of 133 doctors said
they they refused to help a family due to vaccine refusal.
Another survey of 909 Midwestern pediatricians found that 21
percent dismissed a family due to vaccine refusal. While doctors
are trained and told to ‘se