I am in Burns, Oregon on my rural family medicine rotation right now. I was talking with my attending today about how the decline in the medical profession is in part the fault of doctors who for whatever reason remain disengaged from the political infrastructure that has come to shape their profession. Doctors on the whole, though, just don't have time to take a role in activism. I think the public suffers too, as the outrageously irrational anti-vaccination trend illustrates. Doctors need to support public campaigns that disseminate scientifically sound evidence and the sound medical practices it supports. Vaccinations do not cause autism. The overall risk of acquiring a disastrous infection is greater than the risk of an adverse reaction BY A LONG SHOT.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/571496?src=mp&spon=17&uac=
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