tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post7331237091118997683..comments2024-03-28T10:32:27.517+03:00Comments on Stories from the trauma bay: TwitterDocBastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12224592098492491365noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-78446328437674953082018-03-21T17:20:47.281+02:002018-03-21T17:20:47.281+02:00The first step towards developing a perfect Twitte... The first step towards developing a perfect Twitter marketing strategy is establishing the goals that you hope to achieve after a certain period of time <a href="https://twitter.com/darrenwinters01" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/darrenwinters01</a> ......Interesting guy !<br />Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646387756481401661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-88653299567052556922015-04-28T02:05:22.697+03:002015-04-28T02:05:22.697+03:00You're right, it is down. That's very sad....You're right, it is down. That's very sad. I had sent him a message on Facebook, but he didn't respond.DocBastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224592098492491365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-48029091870296729942015-04-28T02:04:10.902+03:002015-04-28T02:04:10.902+03:00It was the response (by @AzWingsFan) to @NYCJulieN...It was the response (by @AzWingsFan) to @NYCJulieNYC's response that I meant to highlight.DocBastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224592098492491365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-37260749860905764432015-02-18T22:09:23.361+02:002015-02-18T22:09:23.361+02:00I agree. There are some people who don't vacci...I agree. There are some people who don't vaccinate because they can't (compromised immune systems, for example). I'd hate to have CPS sent on a wild goose chase. The key is to educate and do as the doctor does. If you don't vaccinate, you aren't welcome in our school/daycare/playgroup/home. How is this any different than an anti-smoking policy? If you insist on participating in an unhealthy activity that affects those around you, do it somewhere else!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-58846607211092844422015-02-09T07:51:58.678+02:002015-02-09T07:51:58.678+02:00The first comment of people against vaccines, relo...The first comment of people against vaccines, relook. I did not see it as an opposition. I read it as a defense for you.Jilly Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967050635239871559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-26542446497431123202015-02-08T23:53:56.491+02:002015-02-08T23:53:56.491+02:00"Melanie's Marvelous Measles" - a ch..."Melanie's Marvelous Measles" - a children's book, I kid you not - about the miracle of "natural health choices". Go to Amazon and read the scathing reviews, if you want a laugh. But then you will cry, because these anti-vac people exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-78090883868469965962015-02-08T06:27:53.332+02:002015-02-08T06:27:53.332+02:00I'm all for calling CPS or the police. I'm...I'm all for calling CPS or the police. I'm also for states, cities, and other governments making ordinances that make it fiscally impossible for anybody but Bill Gates to get a child to majority without vaccinations. CPS workers are CPS workers, and they are overburdened and underpaid no matter what happens with anti-vaxxers. The courts, CPS, and government could earn enough money to pay for the problems these people cause by fining the crap out of them because they insist on being a part of society without thinking the rules apply to them.<br /><br />The BigPharma argument is mind boggling. Nobody makes money off vaccines - they're all so far out of patent it's not funny. Salk refused patent protection for the polio vaccine.<br /><br />I had somebody suggest that measles was a "cross-fit" workout of the immune system. I think I lost a few brain cells to that thought, though I did suggest that these parents start hanging out with those infected with TB, so they could give their own systems a workout. Hell, they should look forward to going to prison - prisons are a great "cross-fit immune systems workout" what with all the Hep C, TB, MRSA, and other communicable diseases going on there. Maybe we shouldn't fine the parents so much as put them in prison long enough to learn better.<br /><br />As for writing for The Daily Beast - just don't abandon us long term readers/rare writers of your blog. Love your take on most stuff.bellkurvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15081555358143609867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-44065497038569327042015-02-07T19:54:29.267+02:002015-02-07T19:54:29.267+02:00Two more things: (1) the link to Dr. Ginsberg'...Two more things: (1) the link to Dr. Ginsberg's FB page is down--I hope this doesn't mean he was hacked/run off by the anti-vaxxers; (2) there is now actually a book out called <i>Melanie's Marvelous Measles</i>, in which we learn that measles are no big deal and actually kind of fun, you'll definitely get them if you're vaccinated, and drinking lots of melon juice will keep you from getting them. I wish to God I was making this up, but I'm not--an anti-vaxxer mom (who ended up in that camp after tragically losing a child, only to have her aunt--a nurse!--tell her that all the kids she saw in the hospital with similar illnesses had been vaccinated, nudge nudge wink wink) wrote this, and apparently it's a huge hit with that crowd. Too bad Roald Dahl isn't around to tell us about losing one of his kids to harmless, actually kind of fun measles. (Look, I get being suspicious of Big Pharma, but vaccines have such a proven track record I just don't get it; I'm sensitive to thimerosol--found this out when I first got contacts and the solution turned out to contain it--and I survived all my vaccines just fine. There's a reason everyone ran out to get their shots as soon as they were available; it was because they were all too familiar with what these diseases could and did do to people. *sigh*Robin the Mad Photographerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766675938768012882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-46383669144203824392015-02-06T06:09:48.561+02:002015-02-06T06:09:48.561+02:00Love Dr. Ginsberg's comment except for the CPS...Love Dr. Ginsberg's comment except for the CPS reporting as those case workers are busy enough! If doctors did this, all anti-vaxxers could take their children to their hero, Dr. Rand Paul. Oh, wait, he's an ophthalmologist.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07574681491394616812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-82264057296255097242015-02-06T06:00:27.499+02:002015-02-06T06:00:27.499+02:00I back Dr Ginsberg's statement except for call...I back Dr Ginsberg's statement except for calling CPS. These case workers already have enough to do!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07574681491394616812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-7333270638213609722015-02-06T05:46:24.128+02:002015-02-06T05:46:24.128+02:00I agree 100% with him, tbh. If you put a kid's...I agree 100% with him, tbh. If you put a kid's life in danger by not getting them vaccinated when they can be, you deserve to have CPS called on you. You are willfully endangering your child. <br />As someone else said, individual rights end when they begin to affect the good of the community. I applaud Dr. Ginsberg for his policy. It's the best thing for his patients and his practice (though I do hope he makes exceptions for actual health issues on the spacing thing. I assume he does, but you know what they say about assumptions).Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-62116847830304503682015-02-05T18:05:18.268+02:002015-02-05T18:05:18.268+02:00This would be something I would put on the front d...This would be something I would put on the front door of my office (if I ever get one)!<br /><br />For those of us who are immunocompromised or unable to sustain vaccination titres, idiots are putting us at needless risk. I would LOVE to retain vaccination - I've had to be vaccinated for MMR FOUR times - and I haven't had a single side/adverse affect for bugger off you blood lunatics and simply vaccinate your children and stop putting those of us who cannot attain vaccination at risk for nothing!!!Nurse Deehttp://practicalnursetorn.blogspot.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-21111905417332955652015-02-05T16:35:52.550+02:002015-02-05T16:35:52.550+02:00PS - Doc' you really should take your writings...PS - Doc' you really should take your writings to a wider audience if you can spare the time. The world needs more sanity and rationality.Ugihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00453326095140897474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-90858795213937718512015-02-05T16:19:44.107+02:002015-02-05T16:19:44.107+02:00Nice Work Doc' - can't see how I could obj...Nice Work Doc' - can't see how I could object to my doctor taking the same line.<br /><br />I just found this rather fine cartoon on vaccination:<br /> <a href="http://medium.com/the-nib/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0" rel="nofollow">http://medium.com/the-nib/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0</a><br /><br />Some here may find it interesting or useful.<br /><br />UgiUgihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00453326095140897474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-74619024097937664452015-02-04T02:37:39.903+02:002015-02-04T02:37:39.903+02:00Take the Beast up on their offer if you can, but d...Take the Beast up on their offer if you can, but don't beat yourself up if you can't--your first duty is to the real-life patients you have, although I agree with everyone who says we need more smart people with a good platform for spreading accurate information.<br /><br />A lot of my friends would qualify as geeks of one variety or another, and the vast majority believe quite strongly in vaccines; one couple let it be known before their son was born that no one who wasn't current on their DPT vaccine was going to be allowed near their child until he had been vaccinated himself at the appropriate age, so I made sure to get myself checked out (I knew I'd had the vaccine, I just wanted to confirm that it was still working, which it was). When I mentioned this to my parents, my dad thought it was a good idea, but my mom, of all people, became rather irate at the idea that my friends would try to dictate that other people get vaccinated; come to find out that she stubbornly refuses to get a flu shot (Dad and I both do; when you've had pneumonia once and bronchitis multiple times <i>and</i> have asthma, as I did and do, you tend to want to avoid coughing up bits of blood ever again, believe me); scarier still was her insinuation that, if she were having her kids now, she might not be as inclined to get them vaccinated as she was back in the day. Thank God we were all born back in the '60s, when it was all but mandatory...Robin the Mad Photographerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766675938768012882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-39270044419185817142015-02-03T17:46:07.122+02:002015-02-03T17:46:07.122+02:00I think short of mandatory vaccines for everyone w...I think short of mandatory vaccines for everyone who doesn't have health issues preventing immunization at that moment, the only reasonable approach would be what previous comments have already mentioned:<br /><br />Don't allow non-vaccinated kids older than a year/14 months into public care or education facility (crib, preschool, school, etc). I think a lot of private facilities will follow suit in fear of loosing the children of sane and educated parents as clients.<br /><br />Some private facilities might specialize to take on anti-vax children, and so be it: it will highten of those (and only those) kids to contract a disease since most of them won't be immunized, and that's really sad for the kids, but I think that hightend danger of infection will be the only thing able to change the anti-vaxxers minds. As long as their risk of being exposed is practically non-existent because of heard immunity they will just sit back and self-rightously claim that they won't expose their children to those bad, bad vaccines.<br /><br /><br />What those people don't realize is that by not having their kids vaccined they make sure that their grandchildren will have to be, and possibly their grand-grandchildren too.<br /><br />Today, nobody has to get a vaccine for smallpox. Why? Because EVERYONE did get one in the seventies. Why can't we have the same success with measels, rubella, polio and similar diseases?<br /><br /><br />On another note, Doc, I would love for you to have success as a writer and would totally read your columns or book, but please only do so if there is a way too keep your name/location unknown. As I commented on the earlier post about your anonymity I believe you should keep it in order to not having to change the way you write to protect the innocent (and/or stupid).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-36513516230662192802015-02-03T15:30:56.122+02:002015-02-03T15:30:56.122+02:00No, the newspaper editor said she liked the tone o...No, the newspaper editor said she liked the tone of my blog, and the editor at the Daily Beast said that a colleague had forwarded her my blog (you know, the one you're reading right now), and that had spurred the offer. <br /><br />I do love when people make assumptions, because only one person ends up looking foolish. DocBastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224592098492491365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-51024080851284954642015-02-03T14:16:23.317+02:002015-02-03T14:16:23.317+02:00So those publications clearly think you are the pe...So those publications clearly think you are the pediatrician. You really going to write under false pretenses? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-76419528106695281222015-02-03T11:03:05.602+02:002015-02-03T11:03:05.602+02:00What I don't get about anti-vaxxers is this: T...What I don't get about anti-vaxxers is this: They don't trust the "chemicals" in vaccines. Do they also refuse every form of medication that's not herbal? Because if they don't trust "BIG PHARMA" with what they put in vaccines, they should be TERRIFIED of meds. Have you seen the possible side effects of Ibuprofen? I'm taking 2 per day at the moment because I had my wisdom teeth removed, I don't mind. But it would only be logical for them to refuse medicine as a whole, right?<br />E.g. what HelWilliams said - is that a normal occurance in anti-vaxx circles?SoWeirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00950825812074871425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-91356634459711541502015-02-03T05:38:59.462+02:002015-02-03T05:38:59.462+02:00I am a nurse in sonoma county (20 minutes north of...I am a nurse in sonoma county (20 minutes north of the center of Marin) and the amount of fury that everyone here has about anti vaccine people at the moment is unprecedented. Everyone on my floor is applauding you and sharing this article. the worst part is that those same non vaccinating parents will bring their children to Marin General Hospital ER with a fever of 104 F or higher demanding that something be done but as soon as the nurse brings out the APAP they lose their minds. They will absolutely refuse to put any medication in their child as the poor kids brain boils and insist that the dr find a holistic alternative. One friend told me of a dr having to spend 20 minutes talking the mother into allowing fever reducers to be used while the nurses applied cold packs to the virtually non responsive child. Thank you so much for being part of the movement of doctors speaking up about this.HelWilliamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00872742535286941152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-4944144698012232772015-02-03T04:59:28.891+02:002015-02-03T04:59:28.891+02:00Personally I think it's about time the foot so...Personally I think it's about time the foot soldiers of the medical community, those treating, interacting with and impacting the daily lives of the children caught in the middle of this ideological tug of war, took a strong clear stance against the anti-vaccine movement. <br /><br />In the beginning it was just a fringe element, a small cloistered group of the willfully ignorant. It was easy to see them as harmless to anyone but their own and also easy to believe they would shortly fade into history. As they collected celebrity mascots and somehow managed to tie their personal beliefs onto a more national platform of personal freedom and anti-government intrusion they became more dangerous. As their numbers grew and their message reached more and more of the weak minded masses they became a downright menace. <br /><br />Through it all the voice of the opposition (and reason) remained comparatively weak and the numbers of un- and under vaccinated children grew. It's time that people who are making choices that are willfully endangering others who have no choice (those with medical exemptions) face the hard reality of their choices. You can't persuade, canjole, bribe or hope ignorance away. When you make the cost of being willfully ignorant too high, people will choose the path of education. Otishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18263817185831126879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-78529841158603518572015-02-03T04:46:41.892+02:002015-02-03T04:46:41.892+02:00the bad effects of my measles shot were over quick...the bad effects of my measles shot were over quicker than the doctor could reach for a lollipop. the effects of gaining immunity to mumps and chicken pox were a bit more unpleasant. - and now I find I will need to get antibody tests to find if I have lost immunity to those - as well as getting shingles vaccine.<br /><br />meanwhile, I take a perverse joy in telling antivaxers I am more concerned about how the vaccine is delivered than what is in it. (yes, I'm one of those needle-phobes)Ken Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166383392696452631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-53090794259052444502015-02-03T04:42:11.993+02:002015-02-03T04:42:11.993+02:00I'm part of a loose association that is tracki...I'm part of a loose association that is tracking the McMath saga - and there is absolutely NOTHING for the last couple months, and nothing conclusive since October or so. there were a couple more attempts at crowdfunding, which got cancelled as scams after getting next to no support.Ken Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166383392696452631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-52041286344690231642015-02-03T04:18:30.156+02:002015-02-03T04:18:30.156+02:00My daughter works for a school affiliated with Nor...My daughter works for a school affiliated with Northwestern University's School of Medicine and Law School. Every child who crosses the threshold of that school must be immunized except the infants who are too young. Every adult working with said children must be up to date with their immunizations as well. But you don't find many anti vaxxers at the Medical School. The school she was at here in CA was the same rules. Their kids were the spawn of aerospace scientists and rocket makers. amulbunny's random thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621932038345682056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809371631407381115.post-83837000322558358182015-02-03T01:30:05.261+02:002015-02-03T01:30:05.261+02:00Totally agree with you AND Dr. Ginsberg. I really...Totally agree with you AND Dr. Ginsberg. I really appreciate a well-swung clue-by-four aimed squarely at the heads of idiots. Anti-vaxxers like that cardiologist who's kid is "pure" should be thrown far away from any other human being so that they can keep their junk-science based beliefs, yet not endanger other people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com