Doctors Share The WORST Anti Vax Stories - (r/AskReddit)

our slash ass credit doctors have read it what are some of your aunt Eve acts parents stories not a doctor but a story I heard stuck with me the head of Pediatrics from a Toronto hospital I forgot which one was giving a talk and told the story about how early in her practice she had a little boy in for his scheduled vaccines and was answering the nervous mother's questions the mother planned to go ahead with the vaccines but had heard lots of auntie VAX propaganda and so she was worried and had lots of questions while they were talking but before they administered the vaccines the poor little kids suffered a grand mal seizure it was really bad the kid ended up getting admitted to the hospital and suffered a fairly serious brain injury it occurred to the pediatrician much later that if that seizure had hit ten minutes later or if the appointment had been 10 minutes earlier nothing would have ever convinced that poor mother that it wasn't the vaccine that caused the seizure had a kid comment for generic upper respiratory virus asked mom if he was vaccinated as is routine she said no when I asked why not her response was well my boyfriend was vaccinated and he still got meningitis so they don't even work I told her that's the same as saying your friend got bruised by a seat belt in a car accident so you don't wear them when you drive we had a 14 year old female common for abdominal pain one time she weighed 80 pounds looked sickly her mother refused to let her eat anything but a handful of things nothing with very much protein at all she literally had a binder full of articles about how horrible vaccines are all the bad things they put in food these days etc she had completely brainwashed this kid so the kid believed it too her labs showed malnutrition her teeth were horrible just a sad case all around had a five or six years old patient who had a super hippie mom no reason for not vaccinating other than she doesn't want to despite counseling many times a kid also had asthma and would consistently come and for exacerbations despite prescribing appropriate controller meds the amount of exacerbate just didn't make sense one day I sent my student to see him first while I call the pharmacy to see if his meds were received the student came back saying I can't get a history from mom she's literally falling asleep while talking to me also pharmacy said the meds haven't been picked up from the last three visits that was enough for me to call CPS mom was on drugs living situation deplorable last I heard kid was moved to an aunt who caught him up with age-appropriate vaccines when I was a med student I had a parent who wanted to do a delayed vaccination schedule basically it means that you get all the same vaccinations but you pointlessly and foolishly do it over a longer time period the mom had read a book promoting this practice that was unfortunately written by an MD my pediatric attending had zero Joel is that the book written by doctor question mark yes well then you should know that I was in the same medical school class as doctor but I got much better scores than he did not a doctor but so significant other works with children that have autism she has one parent that consistently tells her she regrets vaccinating her kid she then asks questions to my so about which vaccines are the ones that cause autism as if it's a big secret my so tells her that autism is predetermined before birth and signs just aren't noticeable until around two years of age she still tries to justify her logic with other anti-vaxxers parents stories from FB my saw has two masters degrees towards this field it blows my mind how they can still argue with overwhelming facts I'm not a doctor but an RN in public health I recently had a mother call me to ask me if it was a smart idea for her child should get the MMR vaccine why was she asking this she was worried that would make his autism worse nearly qualified pharmacist here so obligatory not a doctor our pharmacy offers travel vaccines for people going away to countries with a hard likelihood of severe tropical disease star parenting goes to the parents who got themselves vaccinated for rabies but not their two primary school-aged element for non Brits children in medical school I saw kiddo whose parents refused vaccines and so when they were given the vaccine refusal form to sign this form essentially said that the parents understood that refusing vaccines was against medical advice but that their kiddo could get sick from all those preventable diseases and that they wouldn't hold the doctor slash practice liable for any complications that the kiddo may get from said preventable diseases thus mom pulled out a sharpie and blacked out the part about the doctor not being held liable the parents thought that we'd be cool with them just changing that form just for them and they wanted the doctor to be held liable for their moronic choice of course this didn't work and they were told to sign the form or they would be discharged from the practice and have to find another they refused to sign and were told to leave after given a list of other pediatricians in the area med school student here I was getting my hair cut and I was talking to the báb Reber about how more people should get the new meningitis B vaccines since I know a person who got meningitis B enormous died but the desk lady went off about how vaccines are dangerous and pretty much every single aunt Eve asks talking point I explained the actual facts behind vaccines and said that I'm studying medicine I think I might know what I'm talking about and then she went off about professors not knowing what they are talking about in that they just teach what they are told to teach so that we can all be brainwashed into supporting the big pharmaceutical companies in that my proof were all fabricated by them edit someone told me we made it into YouTube not a doctor but innocent of vaccine advocate once had a public argument with a friend from long ago he argued that by not vaccinating his kids and risking terrible side effects and possible autism he was placing no-one else at risk however acknowledged the potential risk to his kids after attempting to explain the potential risk to others and him failing to understand I created an analogy which I still use to this day imagine if my kids and your kids get into the same car both of your kids don't put on seatbelts therefore if there is an accident there is an increased risk that your kids will die and also harm my children and the this seemed to click with him and he doesn't share his auntie vac propaganda on social media anymore good analogy it's like not wearing your seatbelt because you worried you could get trapped in your car after an accident it's astronomically more likely you will be killed in an accident but hey at least you have avoided the miniscule risk of being trapped in a burning car by your seatbelt not directly related to my being a doctor but a mutual friend of mine and my wife's is a chiropractor and anti-vaxxer refused to vaccinate her first two kids I didn't want her or her kids coming anywhere near our place when we had newborns or kids - because of the risk her unvaccinated kids placed on my partially vaccinated babies she got all offended saying the usual rubbish like if vaccines work what do your kids have to fear and your kids are more risk to mine because they'll be shedding viruses dot her third child was born with cystic fibrosis which makes them very susceptible to all forms of respiratory and airborne infectious diseases suddenly the whole hypocritical family is vaccinated against everything he'll tell a different kind of story I am an addict and recently had this interaction with a patient adult male comes in with fever he comes back positive for the flu me you have the flu I will write you for a prescription for Tamiflu patient dose since that cause autism this guy couldn't even remember that it was vaccines that reportedly cause autism and he couldn't remember that it wasn't the flu vaccine and of course he is wrong about vaccines causing autism and he is a grown-ass adults that thinks he will suddenly be autistic not a doctor but I worked at a Children's Hospital in research at the time as a coordinator a bunch of us were sitting in our office space talking about medical care of some sorts casually I think maybe flu vaccines and one coordinators cuts in well I don't know if you've seen the recent research but there are a number of issues with vaccines that make them and safe they are highly correlated with autism the room got quiet because everyone was polite one person said Oh heard that I think in an effort to not alienate the girl I responded that's not true because I couldn't not say that she said yeah I'll send you the link I said I think I've probably read the study it's been rescinded then it got more awkward this was probably 2017 I just couldn't believe that in 2017 a person whose job it is to understand research at a hospital with children can fall victim to bad research that has not been supported by any reputable source since probably the 90s I'm not a medical doctor but a mental health therapist went to do a new client intake and while asking the mother about the kids medical history vaccination records et Cie she said he was not vaccinated because the vaccines cause autism and she didn't want to risk her son getting it then when I went to meet the kid within five seconds of laying eyes on him I could tell he was autistic worst part was that when I told her she became very upset and started yelling at her husband saying he must have gotten the kids secretly vaccinated and then immediately ran out the house and took the kid to the emergency room for testing and just left me and the dad in the living room just kind of staring at each other it never answered my calls or texts again after that and I had to get DCF involved I work in a neonatal I cou how neonatologists also work as the pediatricians for the healthy newborns our medical director asked me to come with her to a mom's room because she anticipated some issues after speaking with the moms nurse MD explains the importance of vaccinations vitamin K and the state NBS mom absolutely not you need to do your research MD I'm double board certified have a MD and a PhD in biomedical engineering have 30 years of experience and I'm the medical director for this hospital's Pediatrics neonatal department I am published in over a dozen journals I assure you the risks are minimal and the benefits outweigh them for the safety of your child mom I bet Big Pharma paid you to say that I feel like Family Guy said it best there's an episode where listen Peter kidnapped this child to get him to a hospital because the parents believe prayer will heal their kid so Louis eventually has to confront them and says something like maybe the vaccines and medicines are God's answer to your prayers so why keep praying if you're going to wipe your ass with his reply when I was a medical student I had a five-year-old patient who looked and acted like a two-year-old failure to thrive his mother was super super weird she shaved the sides of his head somehow like a Marine cut but kept his back hair long she refused to vaccinate him or even feed him certain foods her sister and her husband were trying to get custody of the child because his mother was weird and didn't take care of him properly I suspect she was paranoid she would literally fight and call you names if you attempt to suggest to put the kid on a proper Hospital diet she wanted to inspect the food first and to make sure he eats only certain things long story short the attending calling County and they took the child away from her edit thank you for those who pointed out that the haircut is called a mullet cut another point to add he was admitted for a fracture which was really worrisome in a kid that age unfortunately I don't know what happened to the kid after they took him away but he's definitely better off not a doctor yet with a med school student a fellow student of mine is very happy about not being completely vaccinated she is also happy that our country Germany is still a free country considering vaccinations since she believes that they don't really work at this point I'd like to remind you that she is a medical student and at least once a year we have to have a medical check-up to make sure our mandatory vaccinations are in order simply because we're studying and working at a hospital with a lot of immunocompromised patients anyway she was happy to inform me that she only got the vaccinations that were absolutely mandatory so she got no tetanus shot for example and she believes she will never get tetanus simply because she doesn't want to and she believes that is enough since our minds are so capable of healing our bodies if we let them go free for example by using hallucinogenic drugs luckily that can only harm her and no others I'm really not a bad person but I kind of hope she cuts a foot on a rusty nail and gets a little bit off tetanus nothing that will kill her or in any way have a lasting effect on her besides maybe convincing her that vaccinations work I really don't want her to become a doctor throw you made it to the end you're ducking Beast I'll cut you a deal smash LIKE and subscribe for more curated content might it's free and that's a great price

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019