When you have a system providing more and more financial constraints on the practice of the physicians, they're forced to become innovated, and to cut corners, and to do things quickly, and in someways create a turnstyle approach to practicing medicine. They're trained to do differently. They have the knowledge and skills to go do a proper full exam but, unfortunately, they don't have time for it. And two, they don't get paid for it. And three, they have more demand on the services because the system has cut back on the number of physicians available to the community. They figure they'd be fiscally responsible by limiting the number of doctors available to practice to save money that way, because there's less people billing the system.
These poor doctors out there are like the front brigade of an army that only got half of a platoon and they're servicing an entire country. So they have to be innovative. They have to be creative. You have to cut corners. And they have one patient, one symptom, one question, goodbye. They can't even bill for it anymore.
So you do have the physicians caring but they're being overworked. They're being underpaid. And they're being forced into corners if not by insurance companies like the HMO's in the United States, and Canada by our provincial reimbursements that they have to be efficient. It is the most ____.
And efficiency comes at a cost. And unfortunately, and this is what's sad. This is what's sad from my point of view. Had the pediatricians, the trained physicians been allowed to have the time and reimbursement to assess all of these infants and children they were vaccinating before they vaccinated them. The Advisory Council of Immunizations and Practices had said that the only way you can be sure that a child is not having an adverse reaction, whether it's neurologically, immunologically. you need a baseline. If anything happens you need to follow up, refer them to a neurologist, refer them to an allergist.
But the only way, and they have the skills to have picked this up, they could have determined that this was going on. They would have known 40 years ago. 'Cause the skills I have, they have. They were trained in medical school. They got licensed based on having these skills. It's basic simple clinical neurology. They all have passed their exams.
They don't do it because they don't get paid to do it. They don't think it's a problem but if they'd taken the time and done what they are supposed to do...
It's not economically feasible. You cannot vaccinate an entire population and have these pediatricians spending 15 minutes doing a complete neurological exam, bring them back the next day and do another neurological exam and make sure nothing's happened.
Had they simply done that, which they know was an important thing to do, they would have picked up this problem, like I have now, many, many years ago.
But they did not because the system's made them be fiscally restrained. And it' gotten so horrible, so pathological at a system level, that the pediatricians who make great money for well babies exams giving vaccinations. The pediatricians more times than not do not even see the patients and the babies when they come in to get their vaccinations. It's just give them off to some nurse to go ___ do it.
How can a nurse with no medical training at the level the physician has provide a procedure, a surgical procedure which vaccination basically is, without any knowledge of what's going on?