recommendations

the most that we can do as physicians, sometimes, is provide our recommendations. it is up to our patients and their families to follow those recommendations as the best advice that hundreds of years of tried-and-true and evidence-based medicine has provided. often times we have to use this as consolation for ourselves when bad things happen to innocent children.

we do see evidence that our recommendations are not being followed. we know it without a doubt. these parents know who they are.

i have to say that if you do not follow our simple recommendations and your child falls ill, you have only yourselves to blame. we will be there to do damage control, but you hold responsibility for the health and well-being of your child in your own hands.

we will take protective custody of children if we think their parents are harming them. unfortunately we cannot do this just if their parents are idiots.

please, please please. take good care of your kids. they deserve it. do what we recommend. we are not doing it for our health. not at all. we're doing it for your children's health.