Four babies hemorrhage after parents refuse vitamin K shot, a practice on the rise

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46. They are available in single dose form at the doctor's office

They are not at the hospital for reasons such as storage, tracking and all that happy horse.

You are not using a few of these things in a hospital setting. It is like gauze. You can buy them in individual packages for home use, where you do not use many of them, or often. You know how much of that shit a hospital goes through in a day? Hence, buying in bulk makes lots of sense.

If parents are too stupid to refuse these things for their kids, the rest of us pay for their stupidity. PERIOD. In this case, we will have to take care, as a society, of a kid with what should have been a very preventable brain lesion. Oh and the kid gets to live with it, when he\she should not.

The same goes with vaccines. We should not be dealing with Whooping Cough, we are. What is next? Due to the stupidity and willful ignorance of parents, as well as hucksters, what is next? A Polio outbreak? I have very little patience for this level of rank stupidity.

Again, Carl Sagan is quite right on this.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us-then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.