A comment from an article from io9.com: "The Herd Mentality of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement"
Pediatrician: Will you be vaccinating your children?
Parent: No.
Pediatrician: Please leave my office.
He then goes on to explain himself -
I
often wonder why a parent who believes vaccines are harmful would want
to bring their children to a medical doctor at all. After all, for
immunizations to be as malign as their detractors claim, my colleagues
and I would have to be staggeringly incompetent, negligent or malicious
to keep administering them.
If vaccines caused the harms
Jenny McCarthy and her ilk claim they do, then my persistence in giving
them must say something horrifying about me. Why would you then want to
bring your children to me when you're worried about their illnesses? As a
parent myself, I wouldn't trust my children's care to someone I
secretly thought was a fool or a monster.
Showing posts with label compliance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compliance. Show all posts
Aug 27, 2014
Jan 2, 2013
Compliance & Threats
Currently I am in Clinical Neuroscience. We are being lectured to about sleep disorders, specifically sleep apnea. The guest lecturer appears to be in the range of 40-60 years of age.
Concerning sleep apnea, there is a fairly successful treatment: continuous positive airway therapy (CPAP). Unfortunately, compliance with CPAP is pretty low. Only 46% of patients use the therapy, and of these persons, only 70% use it on a regular basis.
The lecturer urged us to tell our patients: "You're going to die in the most horrific way imaginable then list all the complications of uncontrolled sleep apnea."
This was one of my major complaints for my previous endocrinologist: vague threats. I can understand why doctors would want to do this--it is really frustrating when you're trying to help someone when they're not trying to help themselves. But I wonder if there isn't a better way to tell someone that they're killing themselves. Would this involve asking them about their life goals and how non-compliance will negatively affect these goals? I think it does.
Regardless,
I suppose doctors are among the few people that can tell you--in disturbing and exact details--how you're going to die without you freaking out and calling the cops.
Concerning sleep apnea, there is a fairly successful treatment: continuous positive airway therapy (CPAP). Unfortunately, compliance with CPAP is pretty low. Only 46% of patients use the therapy, and of these persons, only 70% use it on a regular basis.
The lecturer urged us to tell our patients: "You're going to die in the most horrific way imaginable then list all the complications of uncontrolled sleep apnea."
This was one of my major complaints for my previous endocrinologist: vague threats. I can understand why doctors would want to do this--it is really frustrating when you're trying to help someone when they're not trying to help themselves. But I wonder if there isn't a better way to tell someone that they're killing themselves. Would this involve asking them about their life goals and how non-compliance will negatively affect these goals? I think it does.
Regardless,
I suppose doctors are among the few people that can tell you--in disturbing and exact details--how you're going to die without you freaking out and calling the cops.
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