RE: Gardasil question

[Guest guest]

I’m not an MD, but the doctor who

shares space with us stopped doing them when Merck put out the warnings about

the patients who were having bad side effects. As a mom of an 8-year old girl,

I’m not going to allow her to be vaccinated for this just yet.

Pratt

Office Manager

Oak Tree Internal Medicine P.C

Roy Medical Associates, Inc.

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Skaggs

Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008

7:56 AM

To: practiceimprovement1

Subject:

Gardasil question

I know on

this list we usually talk in terms of how to get paid for immunizing, where to

buy vaccines, etc...but I have more of a clinical question. Am I the only

one not thrilled with Gardasil ? Sure the CDC recommended it...and surely

they are smarter than I..but I really wonder how smart we are to spend that

much money on something with such limited potential benefit. I mostly

don't see kids, so it doesn't come up for me that much, but see my handout that

I whipped up because there is a family bringing in a young gal today and they

specified that they want Gardasil.

The other vaccine I lie awake worrying about is that for varicella....We

now have a generation of teens, soon to be young adults who do not have natural

immunity...and lucky for the vaccine manufacturer (Merck, I think)

will now need a lifetime of periodic boosters...and they don't dare just blow

it off and take their chances...varicella is much more wicked in adults..

We have seen what the fear of shigles has done for the sales of

Zostavax.... yet another vaccine I have doubts about.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against immunizations. My kids got all the

recommended ones.... I get a flu shot every year....My horses get a whole pile

of them every January and West Nile boosters

in the warm months, and Flu-rhino 2-4 times per year...but these newer

ones worry me.

What do you guys think?

Annie

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Annie Skaggs

Lexington, KY