Flu shots are a widely used source of artificial long-term active immunity. Why then, is it just now becoming known as a threat to your child's safety when it's purpose is to improve health? The answer lies in the medical field's history of doctor-patient relationships. The underlying statues that constitutes the AMA purpose involve very specific wording that paints the doctors in an omnipotent and god-like fashion, whereas the patients are refered to in terms deeming them the obidients to the doctors willing to help them. Patients were at the will of the doctor, and the doctor determined the pertinent information of a patient's own medical record in treatment. It was true that even in the 1950s patients would die without knowing the cause of their illness in its true definition because the doctors would flirt around the topic never to fully unviel how doomed their health was. This aspect of medicine that gives the doctor the right to know and right to hide the complete truth, and therefore decieve a patient, has combined with the modern way of life that is obtaining seemingly all realms of knowledge from the interenet. Patients can now begin to control their own treatment by researching symptoms, discovering solutions, and bringing plans to their doctor's office for check-ups all without a physician involved. Now patients are learning more about their health for themselves and peaking behind the proverbial curtain. This threatens doctors who like to be the head chief in deciding things for patients. A doctor that cannot serve a patient in need of emotional counceling instead of medicial treatments will not survive in this shifting method of patient care. Patients need less medical options and more advice on what will best fulfill their needs for sustaining a life they are happy with, be it through medicial intervention. Now let us come full circle back to the classical flu shot. People have always simply been told to take the flu shot, the flu shot is good for you, it will increase your long-term active immunity. With the view of the public on high up medical practitioners shifting, the low likelyhood of detrimental effects from the flu shot, up to and including mild retardation of children, now becomes a widespread worry for parents because doctors have forever wilthheld that information from the patients. Trust in the medical field is at an all time low thanks to the availability of self-help on the interenet, and doctors did not position themselves in a place to maintain it.
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