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Can a NYS physician legally refuse to treat a child who has not been immunized on competent medical advice?
Question : Can a NYS physician legally refuse to treat a child who has not been immunized on competent medical advice?
A woman recently moved into NYS, having lived in a state where her family physician advised against the routine immunization of her how-8-yr-old son on the basis of serious hereditary risks.
When the child developed an ear infection, she took him to a doctor who’d been recommended by a friend, and was surprised and upset when he refused to accept the child as a patient. She is aware of State Ed regulations requiring immunizations for school attendance, but since she home-schools the child, was not aware that obtaining routine medical treatment for him might pose a serious challenge.
Do State Laws and/or the Canon of Medical Ethics permit physicians to refuse treatment to children who have not been immunized in response to competent medical advice, and who suffer, e.g., a minor infection easily treatable with antibiotic therapy? Or does this leave his parents with the ER as their only health care option for him?
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Answer by Angel
There has to be a doctor that will see him. You’d think anyways. She should call around to different doctors and ask them. I also think that doctors can do that. My daughters doctor wanted to do an EEG on my daughter and I refused it and now he may not want to see her anymore. I only refused the EEG because they wanted to put her to sleep to do it. When she got her MRI they put her to sleep and she almost died.
All physicians have sworn to the Hypocratic Oath, whichh says treating patients is priority one above all else. This is a violation of that oath. Morally this doctor was WRONG, but legally, man has been known to contort the laws to the way they want it to be. This is why the judicial system is sometimes called the “injustice system”.