Why NOT to give your doctor an anti-vaccine liability form

Why
NOT to give your doctor an anti-vaccine liability form





(NaturalNews) Every so often,
information circulates around the alternative vaccine community recommending
that parents ask their child's pediatrician to sign a liability form. Typically,
these forms list vaccine ingredients and ask the doctor to assume liability for
any adverse events that the vaccines the doctor administers may cause. The
theory seems to be that this will enlighten the doctor as to the truth about
vaccines and prevent the children from being vaccinated. While the idea of using
these forms is very appealing to those of us in the alternative vaccine
community, they are also a potential disaster waiting to happen, for the reasons
stated below. Therefore, I generally advise against using these forms, but if
you feel compelled to do so anyway, make sure you're thoroughly aware of the
concerns below and see purpose in doing so despite the potential
problems.

1. Whether or not a doctor signs a form, the required vaccines
are still required. A form can't change that legal reality. You still have to
either get the required vaccines or exercise an available exemption.

2.
Let's face it: No doctor will ever sign such a form, for the simple reason that
they don't have to. Doctors have plenty of liability risks already, they're not
about to voluntarily take on more.

3. The biggest risk is to parents who
take one of these forms to their child's pediatrician instead of exercising an
exemption, expecting the form to make the doctor to stop pushing vaccines and
"see the light." Legally, parents must either get their kids vaccinated (with
all required vaccines) or exercise an exemption. If they do neither of these,
they are not in compliance with the law. This is a dangerous place for parents
to be. Doctors are required to report suspected abuse and neglect, and if a
parent is out of compliance with the law regarding vaccines, the parent may be
legally neglecting their child and subject to being reported. Worse, some
doctors will report parents vindictively, whether required to or not, as their
way of battling what they perceive as the terribly misguided anti-vaccine
movement. Trust me--you do NOT want to be dragged into a CPS investigation over
required vaccines. Anecdotal reports suggest that parents can have their
children taken away from them for refusing to vaccinate their kids (though this
could not properly happen if a parent is exercising an exemption).

4.
Those recommending these forms may be taking a risk, too. Persons suffering harm
from the use of such a form may want to hold the recommender responsible. If you
feel compelled to recommend such a form, consider consulting a local attorney
about any associated liability risks, and about including an appropriate
disclaimer such as a statement that those who use the form do so at their own
risk.

5. In most instances, trying to educate a doctor about vaccines is
probably futile. They perceive themselves as the expert and will usually dismiss
any contrary information coming from a lay person. You're "wrong" before they
even look at your information simply because they already know what's "right,"
and they're the doctor. So, any contrary information is just more of that crazy
anti-vaccine stuff. In short, they can't hear you, regardless of what you have
to say. Furthermore, they have immense peer pressure to promote vaccines, so
even those few who can hear you can't acknowledge the truth without putting
their own careers at risk. So, unless you have good reason to believe that your
doctor is the exception, unless she's already indicated a willingness to review
alternative information, there may be more effective ways to spend your time and
energy. But if education is your goal, do it with concise, referenced
information, and not with a form asking the doctor to accept liability risks.
They may be offended, and respond with a counter-attack, such as kicking you out of the practice (which more and more doctors
are now doing with non-vaccinating parents) or worse, a call to CPS.

I'm
not saying that there's no possible positive outcome by handing one of these
forms to a doctor, at least one anecdotal report suggested that a doctor
responded favorably. I'm saying it's important to understand your legal rights
and responsibilities first, so you can protect yourself and your children, and
so you know what you're getting into before you act. Kids have reportedly been
taken away from their parents over failure to vaccinate, so this is not a
trivial matter. If you have a doctor who will listen to you, then by all means,
educate him. I did that myself with my Dispelling Vaccination Myths article some years ago - the
doctor took an hour of his time to discuss it with me, and he complemented me on
my research. He also sent me a $150 bill afterwards for his time. So, educating
doctors is a laudable goal, but we must be careful about how we do that. But as
to the larger vaccine controversy, we can't wait for doctors to take the lead.
They will ultimately follow us, the market, as more and more of us choose to
leave vaccines behind and demand from our legislatures laws allowing us the
freedom to choose. We might do better to send such forms to state legislators,
asking them to accept liability for the laws they enact that support pro-vaccine
doctors and that result in vaccine injuries and deaths - not because a
legislator would or should ever sign one, but to send a message underscoring the
seriousness of their responsibility to the lives and wellbeing of their
constituents. Ultimately, it's more what the laws say that matters than what
doctors think.


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