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This is nothing new. Spurred by Jake Crosby 10 years ago, antivaxxers at @AgeofAutism flooded email & phone lines of my medical school dean, my department chair, my cancer center director, and the university board of governors complaining about a fake "conflict of interest." 1/
It got so bad that my dean called me to ask me if I felt physically threatened. I said (at the time) that I didn't, but in retrospect, perhaps I should have answered yes. OTOH, antivaxxers back then hadn't reached the level of vitriol and violent rhetoric that they use now. 2/
It eventually blew over, and the university, cancer center, and hospital supported me. I ended up by sending the antivaxxers a message. 3/ #DoctorsSpeakUp #NursesSpeakUp
As someone who works within #MedicalQuality, works to improve the care we provide our patients, and has a degree in #informatics and #HealthIT I am very familiar with national quality measures.
#NursesSpeakUp #DoctorsSpeakUp
#NursesSpeakUp #DoctorsSpeakUp
One of the most common forms of libel AVers through at anyone who disagrees with them is that we are simply doing it for the money, that we are #bought, or #Pharmawhores.
One of the examples they give as an example for this is a HEDIS Measure, CIS.
ncqa.org/hedis/measures…
One of the examples they give as an example for this is a HEDIS Measure, CIS.
ncqa.org/hedis/measures…
They purport that physicians are receiving bonuses for each vaccinated child, and that physicians also receive extra moneys for achieving a higher percentage of children who are vaccinated on time. They will often show a document from BC/BS which seems to support this.
