# Doctor Raises Concerns About Vaccine Education and Informed Consent - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2110503778596028737 - Source account: [@brandilwells](https://x.com/brandilwells) - Source language: English - Duration: 4:02 - Published: 2026-10-15 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent) Regarding vaccines, and these are the things that I'd like to highlight. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=3) Number one, there is no education in medical schools that I am aware of, and being an educator at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University, I am not aware of education around vaccines, [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=20) their contents, safety records, informed consent, or the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=30) We do not discuss that in nineteen eighty-six, Congress enacted legislation removing all liability from pharma related to vaccine adverse events. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=41) What are we taught about vaccines? We are taught to memorize the vaccine schedule. And actually, I'm gonna be sitting for my family medicine boards this year, and I am sure that I will have to memorize that schedule again in order to pass that exam. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=61) We don't discuss that almost four billion dollars, with a B, has been paid to vaccine-injured patients since nineteen ninety-two. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=75) For medical professionals, we expect fair balance, but vaccines seem to be absolved from that consideration. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=84) Number two, there appears to be a conflict of interest regarding payments to providers for completing vaccine schedules. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=96) And a corollary to that, which would be number three, patients are being dismissed from practices because of, quote, unquote, "vaccine safety concerns." [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=107) If you bring up a question about a vaccine and you decide not to vaccinate your child, you may be at risk of being terminated from that practice. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=116) Absolutely deplorable and disgusting. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=121) Number four, and again, to the Bailey family, I'm really sorry, but employers are forcing employees to receive the flu vaccine or face corrective action or job loss. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=133) And the fact that your dad was six months from retiring is... [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=141) There's a la-- number five, there's a lack of informed consent, and I was one of those providers who didn't provide safety sheets before vaccinating. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=150) I would tell the parents, "These are the vaccines today. [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=154) We're gonna give you three vaccines in one leg and two in the other." [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=159) And then after vaccinating either the child or the adult patient, "Here's your information sheet." And again, to be completely transparent with you, I had no idea that there was even a mention of the compensation program or a telephone number to call. [2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=176) Absolutely deplorable on my part, and I apologize to y-- my patients. [3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=184) Number six, there's a lack of transparency regarding vaccine complications, and worse, you're being shamed as patients for suggesting that you were harmed by a vaccine. [3:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=201) If I see a patient in the office and diagnose strep throat and give them penicillin, and either the mom or the patient themselves calls and tells me that they developed a rash, there is zero question. [3:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=214) The chart now states they have an allergy to penicillin and will never be given it again. [3:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=220) Why don't we believe parents and patients when they tell us they have had an adverse event regarding a vaccine? It doesn't make sense to me as a medical professional. [3:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4DEzcZOVAlW4/en/doctor-raises-concerns-about-vaccine-education-and-informed-consent?t=235) I apologize for the-- being emotional.