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NEW: As more parents reject a long-standard shot for babies, hospitals are seeing cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding — once considered virtually eliminated.
Doctors don’t always recognize or know how to treat the life-threatening condition.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Hospital #Medicine #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Texas #Emergency
Double mischief here...
Putting #newborns at risk of a 👉 completely preventable 👈 complication.
Forcing #doctors to quickly #diagnose conditions that none of them have ever seen before.
For example... I went my ENTIRE professional life (almost 40 years) without EVER seeing a case of #Measles.
Our unwillingness to deal with KNOWN threats using KNOWN solutions makes us incapable of dealing with new threats as they emerge (such as COVID-19).
The parents are 100% at fault here and should be prosecuted for neglect.
They are not researchers yet relied on their "own research ", the infamous refrain of the willfully ignorant.
The doctor is also to blame and, to a somewhat lesser extent, are the transport and hospital teams.
There are no innocents in this beyond the dead child, but it's the parents, whose reckless decision began this cascade of failures, who are primarily responsible.
@ProPublica Cleaning up the gene pool. I feel bad for the kids and for the new one she had after killing the first baby
Baby killers roam free while children suffer
@ProPublica Yeah lots of fun having a kid who stroked out because of some crap parents learned on an internet forum
@ProPublica Ignorance is winning in monarchies and duopolies.
@ProPublica If I were a hospital, I’d condition people to sign consent forms for VitK shots before they are let in for giving birth. Oh, you don’t want to sign? Go ahead and have a hospital-free birth since you don’t trust doctors.
@ProPublica natural selection, I'm tempted to say.
Pharmaceuticals are big business. So of course, they will target you with propaganda/advertisements that push their products.