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It is to be hoped this is a situation [1] which will never be replicated in the United Kingdom or its successor states, both because it removes the decision not vaccinate from the parent and the physician to a compliance obsessed bureaucracy, and because it fails to take account of the severe limits and fallibility of vaccine technology [2-5].
[1] Owen Dyer, 'New California’s medical board investigates doctors who write many vaccine exemptions',
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6231 (Published 28 October 2019)
Re: California’s medical board investigates doctors who write many vaccine exemptions
It is to be hoped this is a situation [1] which will never be replicated in the United Kingdom or its successor states, both because it removes the decision not vaccinate from the parent and the physician to a compliance obsessed bureaucracy, and because it fails to take account of the severe limits and fallibility of vaccine technology [2-5].
[1] Owen Dyer, 'New California’s medical board investigates doctors who write many vaccine exemptions',
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6231 (Published 28 October 2019)
[2] John Stone, 'Trust is not being earned', 25 October 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5995/rr-7
[3] Noel Thomas, 'Re: David Oliver: Fear in medical practice', 25 October 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6030/rr
[4] John Stone, 'Propaganda should not be allowed to overwhelm policy', 23 October 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5995/rr-5
[5] John Stone, 'Re: Helen Salisbury: Trust and truth telling', 20 September 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5477/rr-0
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