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Jeffrey A. Hirschfield, MD CPI
03 Dec 2016
As a pediatrician I teach students and colleagues to be more effective communicators and healthcare educators. Confidence in your message sent to parents about vaccine safety leaves a lasting impression. What parents read about online about vaccines heavily impacts their current views and shapes their decisions. I rarely get through an entire prenatal visit without being asked by parents what my thoughts are on vaccines and are the vaccines safe.
I inquire from parents about their personal feelings, experiences, or apprehensions about vaccines when asked to help. I address questions using examples throughout my professional career revealing how vaccine safety should not and rarely ever results in an ER visit. In over 20 years of administering tens of thousands of childhood doses I can confidently say that I have not had a single serious adverse event case. Your parent vaccine discussions covering potential short-lived side effects will empower your parents.
I provide information on how pediatric practices dramatically changed as a result of effective vaccination programs. My past and current experiences allow me to speak about 3 children I saw die as a young pediatric resident in the late 1990’s. These horrific memories of childhood death and families torn apart impacted me immensely. Just several years later in 2000, we saw the launch of Prevnar, a vaccine against Strep pneumoniae meningitis contributing to its near complete eradication in childhood. As a private practice pediatrician for nearly 20 years, we can say it is exceedingly rare to see pneumococcal meningitis happening in children and science paved the way.
I discuss some brief information about the construct of the vaccines illustrating vaccine purity and improvements in safety. As a result of scientific discovery resulting in improved formulations we see few safety issues. For example, I speak about numbers showing how the combined vaccines administered in the 1970’s contained 30,000 unique “immune stimulating proteins” in comparison to <300 now. Forty years later and with few added vaccines and boosters in the current childhood vaccine schedule they are much safer.
Parents trust and respect their pediatricians if their pediatricians listen to them and their children. I am confident that my families walk away from discussions learning more about themselves and from them I learn to be a better physician and teacher. All of us deserve to be satisfied healthcare consumers and each one of us hopefully makes a prudent decision to listen and educate. Assisting families toward making informed decisions is critical for healthy physician-patient interactions.
Vaccines: Pediatricians are in a unique position as healthcare educators building trust from families
Jeffrey A. Hirschfield, MD CPI
03 Dec 2016
As a pediatrician I teach students and colleagues to be effective communicators. The confidence in your message to parents about vaccine safety leaves a lasting impression. What parents read about online about vaccines heavily impacts their current views and shapes their decisions. I rarely get through an entire prenatal visit without being asked by parents what my thoughts are on vaccines and are the vaccines safe.
I inquire from parents about their personal feelings, experiences, or apprehensions about vaccines when asked to help. I address questions using examples throughout my professional career revealing how vaccine safety should not and rarely ever results in an ER visit. In over 20 years of administering tens of thousands of childhood doses I can confidently say that I have not had a single serious adverse event case. Your parent vaccine discussions covering potential short-lived side effects will empower your parents.
I provide information on how pediatric practices dramatically changed as a result of effective vaccination programs. My past and current experiences allow me to speak about 3 children I saw die as a young pediatric resident in the late 1990’s. These horrific memories of childhood death and families torn apart impacted me immensely. Just several years later in 2000, we saw the launch of Prevnar, a vaccine against Strep pneumoniae meningitis contributing to its near complete eradication in childhood. As a private practice pediatrician for nearly 20 years, we can say it is exceedingly rare to see pneumococcal meningitis happening in children and science paved the way.
I discuss some brief information about the construct of the vaccines illustrating vaccine purity and improvements in safety. As a result of scientific discovery resulting in improved formulations we see few safety issues. For example, I speak about numbers showing how the combined vaccines administered in the 1970’s contained 30,000 unique “immune stimulating proteins” in comparison to <300 now. Forty years later and with few added vaccines and boosters in the current childhood vaccine schedule they are much safer.
Parents trust and respect their pediatricians if their pediatricians listen to them and their children. I am confident that my families walk away from discussions learning more about themselves and from them I learn to be a better physician and teacher. All of us deserve to be satisfied healthcare consumers and each one of us hopefully makes a prudent decision to listen and educate. Assisting families toward making informed decisions is critical for healthy physician-patient interactions.
Vaccines- Listening & educating, power of our message to parents!
Parents are coming around full circle. Parents have spoken loudly and have decided that they don’t like this terrible takedown of healthcare for their children. Private pediatricians have a strong advantage on personalized care and cost containment then large groups. We will always win the battles between bloated government -affiliated institutions and lean private offices. They cannot compete with us. Look at our reviews online.
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Unfortunately, Americans are seeing higher and higher healthcare costs and less and less patient access and more government intervention since Obamacare. The government’s narrative was to intervene to stop the unprecedented rise in healthcare costs (and GDP) but their maneuvering has only dramatically worsened the situation. It is deplorable to see how larger hospital networks lobby the federal government and favored while the little people (private sector doctors) are continuing to be taken out of the system. Money flows from government to insurance companies along with favors to large healthcare networks through a nondisclosed process have dished out our hard earned tax dollars to repay the healthcare companies for financial shortfalls as written into the law. These are facts that have proven to be illegal. It is time for all of us to pay more attention to providers of high quality healthcare rather then rally behind continual big government takeovers. Americans, rally against these hostilities and terrible agendas against private practice physicians in favor of larger systems controlled by our government. It clearly is not working and only exacerbating an already fragile healthcare system in collapse. Remember, this dysfunctional healthcare system enabled by our administration not only empowered the big and wealthy industries but wasted our hard earned money! All Americans, I urge you all to stand up and be heard now. Tell your politicians that you are going to take our country back and give control to the people through your votes that will determine your physician and not theirs!
Private sector medicine pushed aside by Goverment
Getting geared up for a grand opening in November!
Jeffrey A. Hirschfield, MD, CPI, ABLM 
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