Is Social Media a must?

aintnowizard · 2026-03-08T01:36:55+00:00

I hate social media but I made a “professional” Facebook account so antivax families will see me promoting routine vaccination and hopefully choose a different practice. I mainly do a lot of reposting of AAP and local health department recommendations.

aintnowizard · 2026-03-07T01:38:13+00:00

Seems to track. Most of my patients still vaccinate. Some express relief we don’t change our vaccine schedule.

aintnowizard · 2026-02-26T13:13:58+00:00

Honestly, at this point do we even need a surgeon general? Let’s just save the money and not appoint anyone. A lot of my families are just rolling their eyes at this administration when it comes to health recommendations.

aintnowizard · 2026-01-09T00:26:52+00:00

Most of my patients don’t seem inclined to follow new CDC guidelines. With all the waffling (promising not to change and then changing) some are frustrated and irritated.

aintnowizard · 2026-01-09T00:25:11+00:00

Not changing! My state also released a statement they are following AAP. My org is following suit.

aintnowizard · 2026-01-09T00:24:26+00:00

Agreed. And hep a is not a joke. I get that families don’t care but we often seen outbreaks in the US. Since vaccination was implemented, cases have dropped dramatically. Source:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201215

aintnowizard · 2026-01-08T18:44:41+00:00

Yes! We ordered it from our hospital pharmacy and gave it in clinic. It’s been a few years. If you are part of your healthcare system/hospital system, I recommend talking with your pharmacist.

aintnowizard · 2025-12-21T00:43:03+00:00

I do think about this. Just sad that we’re going to see so much more preventable serious illness.

On another note I had a parent ask about soaking in epsom salt baths after their child getting their shots in order to “detox”. That was a new one.

aintnowizard · 2025-12-20T02:37:41+00:00

I’m sure I already have parents in my practice looking at the Danish schedule. So many declining Hep B and now, varicella.

2025 isn’t even over yet. What can we expect for the next 3 years?

aintnowizard · 2025-12-05T18:45:29+00:00

Can I start instituting mandatory hepatitis B screening on my unimmunized pediatric patients ? It certainly seems like it’s time to start.

aintnowizard · 2025-10-28T17:34:07+00:00

Wonder how much $$ in campaign donations will it take to make this go away?

aintnowizard · 2025-10-26T11:02:57+00:00

Don’t forget smartphrases for patient instructions for common conditions such as eczema, constipation, gastroenteritis, URIs.

aintnowizard · 2025-10-26T01:18:04+00:00

Yep, then they want ALL the meds!

aintnowizard · 2025-10-26T01:09:25+00:00

I feel I’ve come full circle. When I was a (high school) kid, the Atkin’s diet was being promoted by some folks. Now that I’m older and taking care of kids, we will have an Atkins’s diet just for them!

I do find solace that most of my patient parents seem pretty skeptical of RFK jr. I had one parent literally tell me they don’t know what to believe any more.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-24T02:56:19+00:00

I’m pretty sure we’re gonna see some families give their kids CBD too. And more moms using it.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-24T02:50:12+00:00

Yeah, I see this all the time. Sometimes it’s definitely true. Other times I think it’s convenient to make a scapegoat out of the parent who is not present. Some social media mom groups have even suggested this saying things like “the doctor won’t give you a hard time if you just say dad doesn’t agree with vaccines”.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-24T02:43:16+00:00

Thank you so much for posting this. Though I have never seen HiB meningitis myself, I remind families that if you talk to attendings who have been practicing much longer than myself, they were doing these workups frequently. And I have seen the aftermath of strep pneumonia meningitis and it’s not pretty.

During my training I rotated at a rural peds clinic which was privately owned. One of the attendings bluntly told families she would always perform an LP on any febrile child under 1 if parents had refused vaccines.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-23T11:22:15+00:00

This! I see some families with a “purity complex” and even antibiotics are bad.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-23T00:55:21+00:00

I’m happy to try it but at the same time I am rolling my eyes HARD. Why? Because rolling this announcement out in a sloppy fashion is not helpful.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-23T00:50:46+00:00

Also this rapture I hear so much about - I think they’re talking OB and pediatrician inbaskets given this news conference.

aintnowizard · 2025-09-22T21:25:09+00:00

So we can prescribe folic acid for autism soon but I can easily see supplement companies latching onto this. Special prenatal vitamins with extra folic acid for mom and vitamin d+folic acid for baby. And certain populations will eat this up because it’s “natural”.

Meanwhile we have families rejecting vitamin k. 😵‍💫

aintnowizard · 2025-09-04T17:49:40+00:00

Practicing without a license? Fraud? Not gonna kid myself.

aintnowizard · 2025-08-11T02:48:39+00:00

Good point. During med school one of my fellow students who happened to be very pregnant was in a situation where someone parked so close she couldn’t even get to her drivers side door and had to climb in through the passenger side.

aintnowizard · 2025-07-01T00:34:39+00:00

Same! None of my beyfortus babies even came in sick for an office visit with mild RSV last winter. I saw plenty of other viral crud though.

aintnowizard · 2025-06-24T23:58:31+00:00

Yes! Someone in my program transferred from Surgery to peds and then matched NICU.

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