Best of 2019: Should doctors help teens get vaccinated behind their anti-vaxx parents’ backs?

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Under the ‘mature minor’ doctrine, a minor is deemed capable of giving consent if he or she has the maturity and intelligence to decide about their own health care

A 12-year-old boy secretly seeking something his parents had always denied him recently visited Dr. Eric Cadesky.Satisfied the pre-teen possessed the maturity to make his own medical decisions, Cadesky was happy to oblige.

Numerous medical groups have produced advice to doctors on how to work with vaccine-hesitant parents, a growing segment of the population the World Health Organization recently called out as one of the top 10 threats to public health globally. An 18-year-old Ohio teen made headlines earlier this month after he publicly and famously thwarted his anti-vaxx mother and had himself immunized. “I grew up understanding my mother’s beliefs that vaccines are dangerous,” Ethan Lindenberger told a Senate hearing examining the recent surge in measles. When he approached his mother, brandishing articles from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirming vaccines don’t cause autism, she responded, “That’s what they want you to think.

A sad story about a child who appeared to be normal and now they have some horrible problem, that is way more convincing than reading about medical evidence “We don’t even need to couch it in, ‘well, this is a way to get more people vaccinated.’ I would say there is an obligation to revisit this topic with a patient who has become competent.”

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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Yes

They can give out snacks made of flax during the Anti-vaxx parents backs they keep in packs in their sacks wearing rolled up slacks.

Yes, doctors dont work for the parents, they work for the patient. If the patient, regardless of age wants a vaccine, the doctors have the obligation to give it. Nutjob parents be damned.

Nope. Don’t interfere in people’s families.

Yes it's not the kids fault if the parents are ignorant and negligent

behind their parents' vaxx

If the teen is 18, then yes.

No, the state doesn't own the children. I'm not an anti vaxxer but more government tyranny is not a good solution.

just say no...

No. The doctors should prove to the parents that they know all the side effects and the studies linking many vaccines to increased risks. Most doctors can’t answer basic questions about vaccines because they have been fed propaganda by the pharma companies that pay them bonus $$

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