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Local Pediatricians Refusing To See Non-Vaccinated Patients
KDKA - Pittsburgh ^ | 11/2/2011

Posted on 11/04/2011 4:28:40 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Chris Barnes, 11, is getting his latest round of vaccinations for measles and tetanus.

“It doesn’t really scare me as much as other people, it’s just a shot,” he said.

Without regular immunizations, Chris would be turned away at his pediatrician’s office.

Dr. Wayne Yankus refuses to see patients unless they follow the government recommended immunization schedule.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antivax; healthcare; vaccines
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Um, Dr. A-hole can keep his poison to himself. These vaccines are contaminated with God knows what in addition to containing DNA from aborted fetuses. I think parents DO have the absolute right to refuse that crap.
1 posted on 11/04/2011 4:28:40 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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Um, Dr. A-hole can keep his poison to himself. These vaccines are contaminated with God knows what in addition to containing DNA from aborted fetuses. I think parents DO have the absolute right to refuse that crap.

I never cease to be amazed by willfully ignorant FReepers. Keep your un-vaccinated self and un-vaccinated child away from my family.

Vaccines are safe.
2 posted on 11/04/2011 4:31:24 AM PDT by TSgt (whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive...it is the Right of the People to abolish it.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

His practice, his business. Unvaccinated patients should look for a different pediatrician. I know I wouldn’t go to a doctor who had a totally different approach to medical care from my own.


3 posted on 11/04/2011 4:34:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure your dog likes you.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Does the schedule include Gardasil, I wonder.....


4 posted on 11/04/2011 4:37:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

The crap, the absolute drivel is your fear and paranoia turned into posted words


5 posted on 11/04/2011 4:38:19 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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Yep. I’d find another Dr, and this guy is free to practice as he wants

However, one must admit there’s no truth in advertising when it comes to vaccines.


6 posted on 11/04/2011 4:38:35 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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Tell that to parents of vaccine-injured kids


7 posted on 11/04/2011 4:39:22 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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Dr. Wayne Yankus refuses to see patients unless they follow the government recommended immunization schedule.

And we all know the Government can be trusted and that it never gets anything wrong!


8 posted on 11/04/2011 4:39:27 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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Some vaccines are safer than others. I’m not interested in forcing young men to have Gardasil, which allegedly protects women from HPV and maybe cervical cancer and has side effects. This MD certainly has an attitude, but we live in America and still have a choice where to spend our money.


9 posted on 11/04/2011 4:41:59 AM PDT by Pat4ever
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I can fully understand the doctor’s position. An unvaccinated child who comes down with one of those diseases that should have been vaccinated against is a danger to other children.

Just yesterday, I read about a little girl who almost died of a normally preventable illness because she doesn’t respond to vaccines. That little girl’s life depends on herd immunity (where others are vaccinated, decreasing her chances of encountering a contagious person)..

I also read about a baby who died of whooping cough that it contracted a week before its scheduled vaccinations. Very young babies are only safe if everyone around them is vaccinated.

I also tried to watch a video of children suffering from whooping cough. I say tried, because it was impossible for me to watch those poor kids who were fighting so hard to breathe, and I had to turn the video off.


10 posted on 11/04/2011 4:43:43 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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People like to think in absolutes, such as your post about "vaccines are poison."

Cautious accuracy - "Most common vaccines have been shown, over time, to be safe for all but a very few recipients. Against the statistically-tiny risk of significant harm from vaccines, we must compare the risk of harm from contracting the relevant disease." - does not generate much of a thrill.

11 posted on 11/04/2011 4:45:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm sure your dog likes you.)
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Tell that to parents of vaccine-injured kids

Consider the liability for the physician to expose newborns to willfully non-vaccinated older kids in his office.

12 posted on 11/04/2011 4:46:02 AM PDT by NautiNurse (That's the sound of the men workin' on the Cain gang)
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There are altogether too many people who never lived through the times before vaccines for childhood diseases.
I remember a polio outbreak in school about a year or two before the Salk vaccine; my parents kept us home for 2 weeks. Two of my classmates wound up with paralysis and confined to wheelchairs.

People today have never seen whooping cough, measles, rubella, and so many other diseases. The are protected, spoiled and full of themselves.


13 posted on 11/04/2011 4:47:38 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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Keep your un-vaccinated self and un-vaccinated child away from my family.

If your family is vaccinated against those diseases, what do you have to fear from contact with the un-vaccinated?

Just sayin'.

14 posted on 11/04/2011 4:50:55 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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People today have never seen whooping cough, measles, rubella, and so many other diseases.

Not even doctors have seen all those. My youngest son developed a rash that looked like measles to me. My older kids had had it, but none of my younger ones had. The doctor I saw to confirm measles (my son had other health issues, so I needed to know) admitted she had never seen measles in real life. It took another two doctors to decide it was in fact measles.

15 posted on 11/04/2011 4:58:45 AM PDT by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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I hope you never have to watch a child die from whooping cough.

Keep up your good fight and convince others to think as you do and one fine day, you'll watch it.

16 posted on 11/04/2011 5:16:38 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (I wish someone would tell me what "ditty wah ditty" means.)
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People today have never seen whooping cough, measles, rubella, and so many other diseases.

You're right. They take their good health for granted even though it's largely because others had the common sense to be vaccinated. I was born just after the discovery of the polio vaccine, but I remember well the epidemics of measles, mumps, whooping cough and chicken pox that swept through our family.

My poor Dad caught the mumps from us when he was 40. He'd somehow missed it as a child. He told us they were too poor during the Depression to have mumps.

17 posted on 11/04/2011 5:18:33 AM PDT by BfloGuy (Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: TSgt; surroundedbyblue
surroundedbyblue: "Dr. A-hole can keep his poison to himself. These vaccines are contaminated with God knows what in addition to containing DNA from aborted fetuses. I think parents DO have the absolute right to refuse that crap."

TSgt: "I never cease to be amazed by willfully ignorant FReepers. Keep your un-vaccinated self and un-vaccinated child away from my family."

Me: TSgt, if vaccines are safe and effective, what do you care if no one else get's one? If they work, aren't you and your family protected? So why concern yourself with others who don't have the vaccine.?

18 posted on 11/04/2011 5:22:35 AM PDT by JakeS (I have never had a flu shot and I have never had the flu.)
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Does the schedule include Gardasil, I wonder.....

Let me answer your question with a question. Does a drug pusher with an MD after his or her name make money off giving gardasil shots?

19 posted on 11/04/2011 5:25:19 AM PDT by JakeS (I have never had a flu shot and I have never had the flu.)
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To: savedbygrace; TSgt
If your family is vaccinated against those diseases, what do you have to fear from contact with the un-vaccinated?

Just sayin'.


Because different vaccines have different lengths of time over which they are effective and different degrees of effectiveness. If you get a large enough inoculum of a disease organism, your immune system, though previously inoculated, can be overwhelmed. And in a doctor's office, where there may be patients with compromised immune systems, someone coming in with a full-blown contagious disease as a result of failure to vaccinate poses an deadly threat.

A vaccination is like a kevlar vest. It'll stop a lot of shots, but that doesn't mean it's impregnable.
20 posted on 11/04/2011 5:27:26 AM PDT by aruanan
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