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No shot, no doc: Pediatricians refuse unvaccinated kids

No shot, no doc: Pediatricians refuse unvaccinated kids

September 01, 2011

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44356327/ns/today-today_health/t/no-shot-no-doc-pediatricians-refuse-unvaccinated-kids/

 

Source - NBC's Today Show


Seattle Children's Dr. Douglas Diekema comments on a growing controversial trend of pediatricians dropping patients whose parents refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated. The AAP, which supports universal immunization, says refusal to immunize should not be the only reason a doctor turns a family away.

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