Doctors Drop Unvaccinated Patients

[Phil]

If the other kids are vaccinated, why would it matter if the unvaccinated kid was in the waiting rom?

Vaccines are not 100% effective and not all children can be vaccinated, for example a child with Leukemia. Not to mention the possibility that a child that is too young to have received all his vaccinations is being exposed to a pathogen that should not be found in a population protected due to herd immunity. Parents that choose not to vaccinate their children have no right to expose mine to their stupidity.

[Mister Agenda]

How about if parents want a doctor who won't see willfully unvaccinated children and their children aren't vaccinated because of their weird beliefs, they frickin' get their kids vaccinated!

[Autumnlicious]

Disagree completely. Unvaccinated children need doctors more than vaccinated children. If contagion is the worry, have unvaccinated children wait in a separate room.

I can understand why some would be supportive of this, but honestly, if decent doctors start refusing patients because of stupid parents, then those stupid parents are going to find "alternative" methods of treating their children. Unvaccinated children are in enough danger as it is without being subjected to more bad medicine.

Problem is that pesky individual rights you keep arguing for.

What is it gonna be?

Are you for mandatory vaccinations, in which these doctors will never have to drop someone for refusing to let them practice their profession or some other change?

Or are you simply going to blast these doctors for exercising their rights to not do business with someone who refuses to acknowledge part of their education and medical training?



It's rather clear -- laud the doctors for exercising their rights to discretion as a business owner or demand a change. But criticizing them for refusing to deal with patients who obviously deny the doctor's own medical training is patently absurd.

See it from an IT tech's perspective -- if someone demands you service their computer, demands that you remove a virus but also demands that you remove absolutely no files, you should probably hand it back to them and refuse to help on grounds that they are putting ridiculous conditions without rational cause and are denying you your own experience as a IT tech.

Why should a doctor service a patient who is clearly unwilling to let the doctor practice to the best of their profession?

[thesummerqueen]

Mister Agenda. Please. You know vaccines cause autism and a whole plethora of ills! In fact, we all might be autistic!

[Mister Agenda]

I'm well-aware, my sister-in-law informed me in-depth!

[popeyespappy]

Disagree completely. Unvaccinated children need doctors more than vaccinated children. If contagion is the worry, have unvaccinated children wait in a separate room.

I can understand why some would be supportive of this, but honestly, if decent doctors start refusing patients because of stupid parents, then those stupid parents are going to find "alternative" methods of treating their children. Unvaccinated children are in enough danger as it is without being subjected to more bad medicine.

Problem is that pesky individual rights you keep arguing for.

What is it gonna be?

Are you for mandatory vaccinations, in which these doctors will never have to drop someone for refusing to let them practice their profession or some other change?

Or are you simply going to blast these doctors for exercising their rights to not do business with someone who refuses to acknowledge part of their education and medical training?



It's rather clear -- laud the doctors for exercising their rights to discretion as a business owner or demand a change. But criticizing them for refusing to deal with patients who obviously deny the doctor's own medical training is patently absurd.

See it from an IT tech's perspective -- if someone demands you service their computer, demands that you remove a virus but also demands that you remove absolutely no files, you should probably hand it back to them and refuse to help on grounds that they are putting ridiculous conditions without rational cause and are denying you your own experience as a IT tech.

Why should a doctor service a patient who is clearly unwilling to let the doctor practice to the best of their profession?

This!

I mean WTF Tiberius? Not too long ago you were arguing this same doctor should be able to refuse to see a black child because of the color of their skin. How about a little consistency in this fantasy world you would like to see us all living in.