Why would she lie to me? It's not like I'm her patient or going to turn her in or anything. I trust her near decade of education and years of practical experience in practicing real medicine on real people. She's not a pediatrician though, but of course she has done pediatrics as part of her internship and residency.
I didn't say she lied to you. I said she told you what she is required to say due to the constraints set upon her and all medical doctors by the AMA.
Years ago there was a dentist that made the news because he bucked the ADA guidelines concerning silver amalgam fillings , which contain silver, tin, copper, and mercury. Because the mercury is what binds the other metals properties together so as to be installed in a cavity, being safe for dental procedures.
This dentist had known a young female patient since she was a child. At this point if I remember right she was nineteen years old and suffering with MS. The disease progressed until she found herself in a wheelchair.
On a visit to her doctor who'd seen her go from being a healthy vibrant little girl to this sad woman in a wheelchair due to her MS, the doctor told her that he wanted to try something to see if he could help. He needed her consent of course. His proposal was to remove all of the silver amalgam fillings he'd put in her teeth and replace them with porcelain.
He told her he thought the silver may be having an adverse affect on her health.
She agreed to the switch. In a matter of weeks she was out of the chair using a cane for support. In a matter of months she was free of any supports and her symptoms of MS had largely disappeared.
The ADA got wind of this. Rather than being supportive of a dentist that helped a young woman extricate herself from a wheelchair and regain her state of health, they yanked his license. Because he'd made an unapproved claim about silver fillings and that potential liability, which the AMA did not approve as to his remarks concerning the health risks of silver fillings, was against their rules of practice.
Having nothing to lose this dentist went on the media circuit to inform people what had happened and so they could decide for themselves as to the safety of silver fillings.
This was something the ADA should have known. When they stripped a doctor so that he had nothing to lose anymore as regarded his profession, he had everything to gain by warning people about silver fillings. And being that the ADA reacted so strongly against what he said rather than what he did to help a young woman regain her health, he had a very good case for being right. Contrary to what the ADA approved for him to say about that in the beginning.
So no, I'm not saying your friend lied to you. I'm saying she consigned herself to the parameters the AMA set for her to say as to the safety of vaccines.
