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varicella

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When I talk to my parents about varicella vaccines,  It is never about money.  they are making a decision about one child, their own, based on the advantages and disadvantages of one thing, the shot.  As their doctor I frame my advise based only on the interests of the child.  I think giving them advice based on what would be good for others, eg what some one else could use that money for, is a violation of my oath as a doctor.  Public health officials have to have another perspective, but I am bound to my very limited one.