I was warning about this loophole right when #SB277 passed. If you let any doctor write a letter supporting a medical exemption, then of course doctors catering to antivax parents would see this loophole as a potential profit center. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/07/22/after-sb-277-medical-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandates-for-sale-courtesy-of-dr-bob-sears/ …
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I was correct too. Dr. Sears led the way on a gold rush of antivaccine quacks selling bogus medical exemptions. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/05/09/after-sb-277-medical-exemptions-for-sale-courtesy-of-dr-bob-sears-and-other-antivaccine-quacks/ …
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A parent even sent me a medical exemption letter generated from an online request system without the doctor ever having examined the child. The fee? $180. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/29/after-sb-277-online-medical-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-are-now-for-sale/ …
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Then there's Dr. Tara Zandvliet, who is responsible for one-third of all the medical exemptions in San Diego.
@JayGordonMDFAAP, do your approve of this? 5/https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/one-doctor-is-responsible-for-a-third-of-all-medical-vaccine-exemptions-in-san-diego/ …Show this thread -
And how about it, Dr. Jay? Have you written letters supporting medical exemptions based on scientifically unsupportable reasons like a family history of autoimmune disease? If so, you personally contributed to the problem that led
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The bottom line is that this is not about doctors "who know the patient best" acting in the child's best interest. It's about unscrupulous doctors making money writing bogus medical exemptions for profit and thereby undermining
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So don't whine,
@JayGordonMDFAAP.@DrPanMD did what was politically feasible while trusting his colleagues to be honest brokers when it came to writing medical exemptions. They weren't. Antivax pediatricians cashed in. 8/Show this thread -
Yes, the California Medical Board did step in and discipline Dr. Sears, but it can't be counted on to crack down on all the doctors practicing outside the standard of care and using bogus medical exemption letters.
@DrPanMD is right to try to fix that loophole. 9/9Show this thread
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