Children’s health: Coaching doctors how to handle anti-vaccination parents


Dr. Lisa Stern, 54, right, a pediatrician, talks with Christa McCaffrey of Santa Monica, Calif., about her 2-month old Olive McCaffrey, who visited the clinic for a vaccination. Stern attended a program that helps doctors talk to patients about vaccines when they are unwilling to vaccinate their children. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Studies have firmly debunked the notion that vaccines cause autism. Yet, that is one of the most common claims made by those who’re against vaccinating children.

THE doctors shifted nervously in their seats as the sharp-tongued questioner scanned the room.

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