yet another powerful testimony from a physician
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My name is Dr. Tara Zandvliet, and I am a physician in San Diego, Board Certified in Pediatrics as well as Internal medicine, so I come at this bill from both the perspectives of protecting the children as well as protecting the right of adults to make informed decisions on vaccination.
Vaccines are medical procedures, just like surgery or any other medical intervention. And like all medical procedures, vaccines carry both risks and benefits. I have personally experienced both those risks as well as the benefits. A child died of whooping cough in my arms. My patient slowly and torturously died of SSPE, encephalitis from Measles. Eliminating those diseases would be wonderful. BUT, the vaccines also have risk. Intractable seizures in my patient caused by the pertussis vaccine, another of my patients who died from a rare complication of the measles vaccine, a personal friend who was paralyzed for a year from Guillan Barre, a complication of the Hepatitis vaccine. My own daughter struggled to breathe every night last year with Pertussis, despite being fully vaccinated. There is no single medical intervention that is safe and effective for every individual. There are very specific and distinctive risks for adult vaccines that are not seen in in children. The risk of arthritis in adults women who receive the MMR vaccine in increased - 12-26% higher and it lasts months to years. There is no appropriate “one size fits all” immunization approach, and that’s why doctors need to be able to freely discuss the options, and patients must have the option to decline those very real risks. Vaccines require informed consent.
We are not allowed to do any surgery, or place a catheter, or even discuss a person’s medical case without their express permission. We are not even allowed to do the scientific studies needed to prove the benefits of vaccines without the informed consent of the study participants. And yet you would take this away from one group of individuals today.
In addition, there are the persistent problems with the vaccines that need to be addressed. The flu shot this year effectively failed. The flu virus mutated, as they often do. Pertussis seems to be doing the same. Yet under this bill, the day care workers would be required to undergo these medical procedures, with its inherent risks. There should be an avenue for people to decline ineffective vaccines, especially in regards to the yearly flu vaccine.
Physicians, who are the most exposed to contagious diseases, are allowed to opt out of vaccines for personal, cultural and religious beliefs. They have the right to decline the risks.
I feel Public Health will be best served by having the 2 most qualified people - the patient and the physician - make the decisions for the individual on a case by case basis, with informed consent.
Dr. Zandvliet practices Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Integrative Medicine in San Diego, California. http://www.southparkdoctor.com
Click to viewMy name is Dr. Tara Zandvliet, and I am a physician in San Diego, Board Certified in Pediatrics as well as Internal medicine, so I come at this bill from both the perspectives of protecting the children as well as protecting the right of adults to make informed decisions on vaccination.
Vaccines are medical procedures, just like surgery or any other medical intervention. And like all medical procedures, vaccines carry both risks and benefits. I have personally experienced both those risks as well as the benefits. A child died of whooping cough in my arms. My patient slowly and torturously died of SSPE, encephalitis from Measles. Eliminating those diseases would be wonderful. BUT, the vaccines also have risk. Intractable seizures in my patient caused by the pertussis vaccine, another of my patients who died from a rare complication of the measles vaccine, a personal friend who was paralyzed for a year from Guillan Barre, a complication of the Hepatitis vaccine. My own daughter struggled to breathe every night last year with Pertussis, despite being fully vaccinated. There is no single medical intervention that is safe and effective for every individual. There are very specific and distinctive risks for adult vaccines that are not seen in in children. The risk of arthritis in adults women who receive the MMR vaccine in increased - 12-26% higher and it lasts months to years. There is no appropriate “one size fits all” immunization approach, and that’s why doctors need to be able to freely discuss the options, and patients must have the option to decline those very real risks. Vaccines require informed consent.
We are not allowed to do any surgery, or place a catheter, or even discuss a person’s medical case without their express permission. We are not even allowed to do the scientific studies needed to prove the benefits of vaccines without the informed consent of the study participants. And yet you would take this away from one group of individuals today.
In addition, there are the persistent problems with the vaccines that need to be addressed. The flu shot this year effectively failed. The flu virus mutated, as they often do. Pertussis seems to be doing the same. Yet under this bill, the day care workers would be required to undergo these medical procedures, with its inherent risks. There should be an avenue for people to decline ineffective vaccines, especially in regards to the yearly flu vaccine.
Physicians, who are the most exposed to contagious diseases, are allowed to opt out of vaccines for personal, cultural and religious beliefs. They have the right to decline the risks.
I feel Public Health will be best served by having the 2 most qualified people - the patient and the physician - make the decisions for the individual on a case by case basis, with informed consent.
Dr. Zandvliet practices Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Integrative Medicine in San Diego, California. http://www.southparkdoctor.com