slightly roasted from earlier....
One of my works is for my local NHS. Inputting children's Immunisation details onto the database. We're all guaranteed to get upset by the parents that refuse all immunisations for their children, not the occasional "Ooops, forgot the clinic date, can we have another appointment soon please?" These are the "Immunisations will weaken my baby's immune system, and they contain toxins, and are probably tested on animals, I couldn't possibly allow that" Yes, really... I know it's their choice as parents, but it's difficult to bear. Especially when they think nothing of whisking said unprotected children off to foreign parts twice a year.

Mind, the clincher was a Crazy Parent Lady, from last week. Instead of completing the HPV consent form (vaccine to protect her daughter from the major cause of cervical cancer) like a sane person - and just saying "No" if she was minded - wrote all over the form accusing us of child abuse for suggesting that her daughter may "One day be so filthy as to catch a sexually transmitted infection" and if we were to give her daughter the injections, she would go to the Police, as it was clearly assault..
on the other side of the consent form, is the section filled in by the child herself. In nice neat, quiet handwriting, with the boxes marked "Yes" ticked, since she was of age to consent to her own treatment. We don't know whether CPL actually ever turned the form over and read the other side....
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 19:37, 4 replies)

Good girl,
and one day old enough to leave CPL...
( ..wil, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 20:41, closed)

My daughter has just had the HPV vaccination.
The two Jehovah's Witness girls in her year at school didn't have it done though. Their reasoning? "We are not going to grow up to be dirty whores and catch diseases like you all will". Nice.
( Ping_Pang_Piddley_Dee couldn't give a big shiny fuck., Mon 22 Mar 2010, 12:17, closed)

someone should have told them what HPV is.
I think that some ridiculous proportion of people are carriers, and it is almost inevitable that a woman will catch it if she has enough man sex. Part of how they came to find out about HPV's role in cervical cancer was the fact that Nuns had unusually low rates. So, really, unless they are saying "I will never have man sex", then there is no excuse.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 13:59, closed)

nuns and
Jewish woman had low rates my catholic mum used to say
(Bernardate, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 11:52, closed)