Just had a patient from our substance abuse treatment center decline his vaccines because

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29. I wish I were allowed to be as direct at the pediatric office as you can be...

...your place of work.

There is discussion amongst the 11 practices in our consortium about no longer accepting families who do not immunize, and dismissing those who have not. There is a question of legal liability if a child catches a vaccine-preventable disease from an unimmunized patient while they are sitting in the waiting room. The patients most at risk for this type of contagion are babies who aren't yet old enough to have completed the basic immunization series, or kids on chemo who legitimately cannot be immunized.

It will be interesting to see how this all works out.