TV Show "Private Practice" rocked tonight!

[portlandatheist]

I've never watched this show before but it was about a mother with 3 boys, one autistic (the oldest) and the other two had not been vaccinated. One of the boys caught measles and the doctor vaccinated the other boy in direct opposition to the mother. It made antivaxers look selfish, ignorant, and delusional. With so much crap on TV in regards to this "controversy", this show was great. Anybody else see the show?

[Starthinker]

I didn't see it but is realistic to think a doctor would/could vaccinate a child without permission from the parents?

[paximperium]

I didn't see it but is realistic to think a doctor would/could vaccinate a child without permission from the parents?
US laws allow doctors to treat life threatening conditions without permission from the parents. Vaccinations for measles is a tad iffy...

[fls]

I didn't see it but is realistic to think a doctor would/could vaccinate a child without permission from the parents?

If the disease were immediately life-threatening - i.e. smallpox, not measles.

Linda

[Ivor the Engineer]

I've never watched this show before but it was about a mother with 3 boys, one autistic (the oldest) and the other two had not been vaccinated. One of the boys caught measles and the doctor vaccinated the other boy in direct opposition to the mother. It made antivaxers look selfish, ignorant, and delusional. With so much crap on TV in regards to this "controversy", this show was great. Anybody else see the show?

Do you think the actions taken by the doctor increased or decreased the trust those people who have doubts about vaccination have in medical professionals?

[portlandatheist]

Do you think the actions taken by the doctor increased or decreased the trust those people who have doubts about vaccination have in medical professionals?

Of course not...It is a fictional drama and the doctor did this action in a fit of passion as his brother was dying which made for good TV but is not something I would advocate.

[T.A.M.]

Fiction, Ivor, fiction.

I had my first case in 8 years of practice the other day, of a parent refusing vaccines for her child (boy). Her issue, however, was not autism (or so she said) but rather the fact that many of the vaccines were "live". After my explanations, she still seemed to have her doubts, but she agreed to his having all but the "varicella" vaccine. That said, she did not keep her follow up appointment for her son to get the rest of the vaccines.

TAM:)