The AMA opposes any law that bars doctors from having conversations about gun safety, do you agree?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

58. I think that's a sad commentary on pediatrics.

It's certainly not what's drilled into nurses. We even spent time discussing techniques to analyze our own feelings and place them to the side while seeing patients for whom we might otherwise hold ill-will, and to de-stress after shift.

I would have thought that if you were truly worried about contact between other patients and those who weren't vaccinated for communicable diseases, you could simply set aside specific blocks of time, such that such kids were the last seen on any given day, and you could simply do extra decontam on the office afterwards. But really, most vaccines don't make it impossible for you to contract a given disease, they just let your immune system 'know what it looks like' and train it on making antibodies. So even vaccinated kids can catch whatever it is, especially if they've concurrently got some other condition that's got their immune system on the ropes.

How much time is he to allot for them? As much as any other kid with an appointment. If all doctors simply decided that people had to suffer for what they consider stupid behaviour, we wouldn't treat cirrhosis, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and a host of other very common ailments that are often brought on by poor lifestyle.