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For Dr. Miller, building trust with patients is incompatible with the pressure of a dismissal policy.

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"The pressure on pediatricians will continue to increase as misinformation and confusion around immunizations spread and red and blue states pursue diverging vaccine policies." (6/7)

"[Dr. Miller] thinks ousting patients for vaccine refusal could, in practice, do more harm than good, citing the unknowns of where such patients will turn to for care next and how dismissal affects families’ trust in the medical system." (5/7)

Dr. Anna Ruderman, one of Miller’s colleagues who shared her personal views with The Dispatch, agrees that patients should not be dismissed for vaccine refusals. (4/7)

Dr. Andrew Miller, a board-certified pediatrician, fears that patient dismissal policies—when practices refuse or drop families who won’t vaccinate—will drive more families toward bad information and medical advice. (3/7)

"Distrust of vaccines and immunization guidance had been on the rise since before the COVID pandemic, and childhood vaccination rates had been slipping for years. But the pandemic worsened these trends." (2/7)

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