You have to understand that doctors receive perks, rewards, whatever you want to call them, when they prescribe certain drugs, therefore you have to be suspicious about their motivation. Gardasil is a very new drug and a huge money maker, especially if the company pays their lobbyist enough money to convince our legislature to pass laws to make it mandatory. Truly, what a cash cow that would be. As a nurse, I think that is foolishness when they started making hepatitis vaccine mandatory, there are a very small number of children who are at risk of contracting the disease and yet we expose them to potentially dangerous side effects of the vaccine, not once but three times! I have three daughters and I will never get them vaccinated with Gardasil. Actions without responsibility is the offspring of both artificial birth control and abortion. I sat down with my now 19 year old son when he was about 14 and I showed him numerous internet graphic photographs of various sexually transmitted diseases. He was understandably ‘grossed out’. He remembers those photos to this day. I have also taught him that sex out of marriage is deadly to our souls, but the photographs gave him yet another reason to abstain from sex.
I’m sorry to have to disagree, but doctors do not recieve “perks,” rewards or other financial incentives for prescribing certain drugs or vaccines, except that the required vaccines will be noted and the practice told what percentile compliance their patient’s meet.
In fact, it is illegal for physicians to accept financial or material gain in any form, including referrals, from pharmaceutical manufacturers. I am a physician and can authoritatively state that no reputable physician prescribes medications or vaccinations based upon financial or material gain. If you work for, or see a physician that does, leave.
That said, the Gardasil vaccine is highly questionable in many respects. The secular public media emphasis on cancer in women made the sale for many people. There were some communities who jumped on the band-wagon and made it mandatory right away, and other persons who push it hard because of the “perceived” risk to our youngsters.
I understand fully the risks to the youth of our world. I have delivered babies for 12 year olds from some of the outwardly finest families you’d ever want to meet, and to 13 year olds in some of the best catholic families you will ever find. I have had to perform LEEP procedures for 13 year old patients who had already had 30 (thirty) partners! I have performed colposcopic exams for countless young women for abnormal PAP tests.
Even with these experiences, if I were still raising children, I would not, at this time, choose to vaccinate them with Gardasil. However, understand, that the law, as it is currenty written, at least in California, gives your children of reproductive age the right to make those decisions without your consent or knowledge. Any OFP (Office of Family Planning) clinic will provide those services free of charge to your youngster, as well as birth control and referrals for abortion. Planned Parenthood will do the same. While you may be making these decisions in your child’s Pediatric visits; it may be a moot point.
I recently had to leave a position with an FQHC because by contract, it required me to participate in these activities; and my newly developed catholic mentality simply doesn’t allow me to do so. I am sorry to say that the loss of a physician in a small rural community is making it difficult for the clinic to remain open; and they provide far more than just OFP services. I miss my patients and the practice I had, but with all of my family reasons and my moral obligation, I had to move to another position. If the clinic will take part in these activities, then it is not my fault if they go under.
Sorry about the lengthy aside, but I did have to respond to the errant post that physicians have a financial incentive to prescribe medications and vaccinations.
