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Why Do Most Medical Doctors Blindly Recommend Vaccinations?
Multiple reasons explain why the vast majority of medically trained physicians support vaccinations.
Physicians receive the majority of their training during medical school, which is heavily influenced
by pharmaceutical companies and government institutions such as the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Both pharmaceutical companies and government organizations support a misguided agenda in
which vaccinations are promoted as a primary tool to prevent disease.
Practitioners are rewarded for high vaccination rates.
Doctors are pressured to vaccinate or face negative professional and financial consequences.
Medical doctors belong to professional medical organizations which recommend vaccines.
To summarize, physicians exist in a world where vaccinations are considered the primary
weapon for disease prevention.
The majority come to believe in vaccine safety and effectiveness.
It takes great courage, curiosity and independence for physicians to think outside of the box
and do their own research on vaccines.
For those who dare to think outside of the box, they can face negative professional and
financial consequences.
Medical School Training On Vaccinations
When viewing an actual curriculum entitled TIME (Teaching Immunization for Medical Education)
used in the training of physicians in medical school, the focus appears to be on review
of the childhood vaccination schedule, methods to encourage parental compliance and advocacy
of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines to prevent disease.
This model was used at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, dated 2011.
An example of a case scenario and how to respond to a parent�s concern about multiple vaccinations
follows:
�How would you answer the parents� question, �Are so many shots really needed?�
Historically, larger numbers of cases of vaccine-preventable diseases were greatly reduced by vaccination.
Deaths, hospitalizations, and brain damage decreased as well.
Since these diseases are contagious, they can return if immunization rates drop, as
has happened in other developed countries when immunization rates dropped
The immune system is capable of responding to 100,000 vaccines at one time, according
to the abstract by Dr. Offit, et al.�
The TIME curriculum listed the following teaching objectives for the medical students:
�Given a patient scenario, recommend vaccination appropriately, according to the recommended
childhood immunization schedule, and state the administration routes and injection sites
for these vaccinations.
Given a child who is behind schedule, explain the principles of accelerated and catch-up
vaccination, and determine needed vaccinations for current and subsequent visits.
Explain the rationale for simultaneous vaccine administration and the potential consequences
of non-simultaneous administration.
Given a patient scenario, identify valid contraindications and precautions to vaccination without missing
vaccination opportunities that are appropriate.
Explain general vaccine safety and adverse event information, including the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program (VICP), the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and use of
the Vaccine Information Statements (VISs).
Suggest three procedures that a physician can implement in a practice or clinic to improve
childhood vaccination rates.
Secondary Objectives:
Given a patient scenario, recommend vaccination, if indicated, during both acute-care and well-child
visits to providers, thereby reducing missed opportunities
State sources of current information on childhood vaccinations, including information about
the schedule, minimal interval between doses, and vaccine contraindications.�
�Ways to improve office vaccination rates include the following:
Conducting problem solving and goal setting activities, following an evaluation of the
practice�s current vaccination rates.
Subsequently, vaccination rates should be monitored with ongoing feedback to providers
about vaccination rates.
Having office staff assess vaccination status at patient registration or during vital signs.
The office computer can generate �tickler� reminders about vaccinations.
Administering vaccines simultaneously if more than one is indicated.
Having a dedicated spot in the medical record for vaccination information.
Training providers to distinguish between valid and invalid contraindications.
Writing standing orders to allow the nurse to administer routine vaccinations.
Marking updated copies of schedules and contraindication checklists available.
Monitoring rates, providing feedback, encouraging competition, and offering prizes.
Take Home Point.
� Practical ways to increase vaccination rates are available and include evaluation
of rates, problem solving, goal setting, monitoring, and feedback.�
What Doctors Say About their Training
This focus in medical school on vaccination schedules and compliance has been validated
by physicians who have shared their medical school training experience.
Two well-know physicians reported the following about their training:
Dr. Suzanne Humphries stated:
�We learn that vaccines need to be given on schedule.
We are indoctrinated with the mantra that �vaccines are safe and effective� � neither
of which is true.
Doctors today are given extensive training on how to talk to �hesitant� parents � how
to frighten them by vastly inflating the risks during natural infection� on the necessity
of twisting parents� arm to confirm, or fire them from their practices.
Doctors are trained that NOTHING bad should be said about any vaccine, period.�
Dr. Bob Sears stated:
�Doctors learn a lot about diseases in medical school, but we learn very little about vaccines�.
�We don�t review the research ourselves.
We never learn what goes into making vaccines or how their safety is studied.
So, when patients want a little more information about shots, all we can really say as doctors
is that the diseases are bad and the shots are good.� [5]
Physicians Are Taught That Vaccines Save Lives
Physicians are taught in medical school that vaccinations are responsible for eliminating
disease.
Their training focuses on the great danger that once common childhood diseases posed.
They are told about the death and misery that resulted from these diseases, which vaccines
are credited for eliminating.
Contrary views, facts, reality and positions on disease elimination and vaccine dangers
are not emphasized.
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The Funding of Medical Schools
Pharmaceutical companies donate billions of dollars to medical schools, and with their
funding comes great influence on the curriculum for medical students.
Pharmaceutical companies are the makers of vaccinations, so they profit largely by teaching
medical students, future physicians, the importance of vaccinations for health.
Government funding is even greater for many medical schools, which means that government
institutions such as the CDC also wield great influence on medical school curriculum.
The CDC supports the current childhood vaccine schedule.
NPR did a survey which found that between 2 and 16 percent of medical schools� annual
budgets are derived from the pharmaceutical industry.
As one example, the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, a medium-sized medical
school with 585 students, obtained 13.5 percent of its budget from pharmaceutical companies
in 2003.
The school received grants from drug giants AstraZeneca, Merck, Novartis, Pharmacia and
Upjohn, totaling $13.8 million.
More than half of their budget came from the National Institute of Health and other federal
agencies, totaling $58.8 million.
How Physicians Are Rewarded for High Vaccination Rates
The Centers for Disease Control has a national program called AFIX, standing for Assessment,
Feedback Incentive and eXchange, which aims to increase vaccination rates.
The program began as a pilot program in Georgia in 1986, and then was adopted across the country
in both public and private physician offices.
Physicians are tracked for their vaccination rates and offered �prizes� and rewards
for high vaccination rates.
To gain �buy in� from providers, the AFIX program suggests the following:
�The most logical, best researched and widely documented strategies to improve vaccination
practices are unlikely to succeed unless there is buy-in from the providers.
Providers are barraged with auditors, consultants, patient advocates, safety committees, licensing
agencies and enforcers of local ordinances.
You can either compete for attention within this pool of �regulators� or you can be
valuable allies in helping the provider accomplish a mutual goal: providing all recommended vaccinations
for all eligible children.�
Rewards for physicians who improve their vaccination rates include publication of successes in
newsletters and paid immunization conference registration for office staff.
Sponsors for rewards may include local businesses, coalitions, professional organizations, managed
care or HMOs and vaccine manufacturers.
Their Professional Organizations And Pharma Funding
All of the physician professional organizations recommend vaccinations.
As one example, the American Academy of Pediatrics holds a strong stance for total vaccine compliance.
Their organization�s home page is inundated with information on vaccines and their importance,
including propaganda reminding physicians of the terrible diseases that vaccines are
supposedly responsible for eliminating.
However, it is also clear that the American Academy of Pediatrics is highly funded by
major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, Merck, Meda Pharmaceutical
and Astra Zeneca.
These companies profit from the sales of vaccinations and pharmaceutical drugs, which are recommended
by pediatricians.
Consequences Of Doctors NOT Vaccinating
Physicians can face negative consequences if they fail to comply with recommended vaccine
schedules on their patients.
Doctors risk being dropped from insurance companies, losing hospital privileges and
becoming ostracized from their peers.
They can face losing a major source of income for their practices if they vaccinate less.
For hospital-employed physicians, losing financial bonuses can be a consequence for not vaccinating.
In severe cases, physicians can risk losing their medical license.
Why NOT To Vaccinate
Physicians are taught well a one-sided view on vaccination safety and effectiveness.
In reality, vaccines have not been proven safe or effective in preventing disease.
Vaccine charts show that most diseases were eliminated prior to vaccine creation.
Improvements in water sanitation are often credited with disease elimination.
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Documented life-threatening illnesses and death result from vaccines, challenging vaccine
safety.
Outbreaks of diseases continue to occur in those vaccinated, raising the question of
vaccine effectiveness.
To explore further ten reasons NOT to vaccinate, see the article Ten Reasons Not to Vaccinate.
Conclusion
Doctors live in a world where vaccinations are a key part of their medical training curriculum,
with the emphasis on how to achieve high vaccination rates.
Vaccine safety and effectiveness in eliminating diseases is emphasized, with no balanced teaching
of vaccine dangers and questionable vaccine effectiveness.
Physicians face negative consequences if they question vaccination rates and don�t push
vaccines on their patients.
All professional physician organizations support strong vaccine policies, which adds additional
pressure for physicians to vaccinate their patients.
Pharmaceutical companies, which make vaccines, are a primary funder for medical school education
and physician professional organizations.
This funding presents a huge conflict of interest.
In effect, physicians are being used as the sales force for the makers of vaccines.
The majority of physicians enter the profession to heal their patients and help humanity.
Unfortunately, because of the large influence of pharmaceutical companies, government agencies
and their training, most doctors are pressured to endorse a failed vaccine policy which has
proven to be more dangerous than beneficial to their patients.