That is informative. Thanks!

William, FYI Dr Andrew Wakefield has been vindicated, in a study conducted by a team of doctors in Wake Forest University, NC on 275 children, a much larger study the DR Wakefields. The research these doctors undertook proved that in the gasto-intestinal tracts of those who had been diagnosed with Autism, were found to have the measle virus that could only have come from vaccination. It must be also stated the DR Wakefield never actually claimed there was a link between Autism and vaccines, but suggested there was reason for concern, he put forward the notion that the measles vaccine be given as a single dose vaccine, never once did he suggest that the vaccine should not be administered He was immediatley rounded upon by the BMJ (who recieve vast sums of money from Big Pharma in advertising and lobbying) , he was vilified in the gutter press , namely Rupert Murdochs media empire, who’s son James incidently sits on the board of Glaxo-Smith-Klyne, the British Pharmacuetical company that makes the MMR vaccine. Lastly i am far from stupid , i am a parent who refused that my children have mercury, chick embryos, bovine fluids, thimerosal, formaldahyde and countless other metals and toxins pumped into their veins

@Deasun, I’m sorry but Andrew Wakefield has not been vindicated. The poster presentation (not a paper, not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that) done in 2008, (I assume you are talking about, seeing as you haven’t linked to it), firstly has never made it to any type of peer review journal, and secondly one of the authors was Andrew Wakefield himself.

Secondly he has been struck off the medical register in the UK and isn’t licensed in the US, so he isn’t a doctor any more. Additionally the single dose vaccine he was suggesting was the one he held a patent on and which he stood to make a lot of profit off of if he could get enough FUD spread to get the normal one dropped.

Finally, if you haven’t gotten your kids vaccinated then I can only hope your kids don’t have to pay for your stupidity, and it is stupidity because there is absolutely no real data backing up your position.

Thank you Michelle

Rhonda one of my grandaughters was involved and has one received a booster vaccination without tears but a big apology and a lollipop. Go back to your knitting woman.

Hey Mick .
Put your money where your mouth is , Can you verify that comment with details and follow up pictures ?? Or are you just claiming that your gtrandaughter is oneof the misfortunates ?

Yeah, we all want a picture of the lollipop! What is going on here today? People asking for pictures of children accompanied by medical records! Seriously weird chat today Journal!!

@ Brendan Harlowe
No i do not want a photo graph . It is sarcasm . Mick is always on here asking for ”proof” . That is all . I am really not interested ion his family nor do I believe him . Like so many other commenters here have little time for him ..

hahahah

Eileen are you asking me to publish a picture of my granddaughter to satisfy your sick prurient interest in a story about human error that seems to have little negative consequence other than blubby tears. You’re sick woman and behave more like a fishwife than a decent human being.

No I am not . I am not interested in your grand child I am using sarcasm ……………… OK

Rhonda I think that must be about the worst bit of exaggeration I’ve seen. One family doctor and an error with the administration of vaccine that the system picks up and you want to criticise the COUNTRY! Would you get a life.

Yup! One GP can single handedly make this country a joke!!

They are condemned if they do not admit mistakes , and now……..

Ah Rhonda, seriously. One vaccination centre makes an error and the whole country is a joke? Really? Why don’t we just burn the culprits at the stake?

Nowhere does it say the error was with storage. It says there was an error in how they were administered. How difficult is it to read an article?

Why are you angry? The error has been identified and the children will be re-vaccinated. I’d understand your anger if your child hadn’t been properly covered, and then contracted diphtheria, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, whooping cough or any other disease the vaccine was designed to prevent against. Otherwise, it seems to me you are just completely ignorant as to what happened. Your righteous indignation, along with several other neurotic mothers on here, and faux outrage is pathetic.

faux outrage ? You are another do as your told people who will defend incompetence no matter what ….Ah shur what harm ? Ah shur they didn’t mean it ! Ah shur t’was an accident! ah shur , ah shur , ah shur !!! and on and on and on you go , doing nothing and responsible for nothing . Ah shur some one else was / is meant to do that !!!! Go away !

Eileen, in all honesty, get a grip. In any system errors will occur, after all we are all human. The important thing in designing the system is that checks are in place to identify and rectify errors, as is happening here. And from the number involved it would suggest that the system picked it up quickly enough.

As for your ‘Ah sur’ comments, the article does not state if further action against the gp is pending, so less of the insinuations that the error is bring glossed over please

Vocal outrage (Is that REALLY your handle? Ha ha )
So by your estimation we should all wait and see ! Have a public debate or enquirey to see who , how or if there was a mistake made , and then time will have passed and no one will know what it was all about or no one will get a slap on the wrist . I am not advocating that any one should lose their job but a reprimand as to how this kind of mistake can be prevented in the future and lessons learned BEFORE it gets too serious.
Have a nice day!

Eileen, did you ever make a mistake, a serious mistake? There are 1000’s of doctors. it’s a credit to them that there are so few mistakes.

Eileen, I have no doubt the Irish Medical Council will thoroughly investigate any complaint made, however, due process is required. Not to do so, in any walk of life, is just mob rule and the problem with mob rule is that invariably it comes to incorrect conclusions

Michelle can you tell us which GP it was please , i moved to UK a year ago and i’m worried my child could be affected?

Many thanks.

Sorry Richard, the HSE won’t confirm the identity of the GP at the moment but if you’re worried you can contact the info line on 1850 24 1850 (or email infoline1@hse.ie) to confirm it’s not the GP who dealt with your child.

Yea… toxic to the viruses. That’s the whole idea.

Didn’t put the mercury in first time around I presume!!

@ William Grogan. The vaccinations contain the virus, so how are the toxic chemicals in which it is mixed “toxic to the virus”?

Hi Moira, again the HSE would not confirm the year but said “the issue dates back to several years ago”.

Nothing to do with administrators…did you read the story?

well said !!

Errors happen every single day in this country in every single healthcare setting. It is a fact of life. It being “grossly unacceptable” to you in “this day and age” will not change that. And 99% of the time, nothing “awful” happens as your melodramatic comment along with it’s litany of exclamation marks would seem to suggest.

The Minister for Health can’t strike off a GP, only the Medical Council can do that. And I sincerely doubt a GP would be struck off for this. That along with the rest of your comment demonstrates your sheer ignorance.

Luckily most educated people place the fear of their children dying from an easily preventable disease, above the fear of the nonsense quakery above. Base your vaccine reading on scientific papers rather than baseless blogs, you will get much better quality information.

What’s in a vaccine Jane? Educate us.

exactly Joan silly little man wit silly little mind !!

Rhonda, that useless little post from you had several errors. I’m glad you aren’t a doctor.

You have no qualification,expertise or knowledge (as you have shown countless times on this thread) to determine that. Only the Medical Council does.

Wow Eileen. Why don’t we just shoot him/her while we’re at it?

Would you strike the Doctor off Rhonda? Or fire the Dean at the University in which he or she studied or maybe impeach the Minister for one case of human error…get a life!

Rhonda
I agree with you . Mick is a know it all and will not be out done by truth or morality . It is appalling to think that any child should be put in harms way due to the lack of oversight or care .

Unfortunately human error is and always will be present in medical care. Most of the time it’s not serious, unfortunately sometimes it is.

The airline industry carries out an extensive analysis after each error to analyse if any changes to the system can be made. It has adopted a systems approach to identify and remedy errors. Instead of pointing fingers at pilots or other individuals when errors occur, the industry conducts a detailed investigation in which the many behind-the-scenes processes and protocols that led up to the failed flight are mapped out. Everyone from the ground crew to the air traffic controllers is encouraged to help identify and solve the problem. This approach has led to an impressive safety record and is adapted for use in healthcare.

Eileen’s emotive and simplistic comments of “how hard is it to read instructions” ” will somebody think of the children” “they’ll only get a slap on the wrist”, etc do nothing to enhance patient safety or reduce errors.

Hi Michelle, if you’d like to have a chat to me about this you can email your contact details to michelle@thejournal.ie. I’d be interested to hear about it. Same goes to any of the commenters who say their children have been affected. Thanks.

Marian if we could cancel it we definitely would, the revaccinations are being done at a clinic set up by the HSE, there are only two dates for these and we’re out of the country for the other date so we have no choice but to inflict this on our daughter on her first day at school :-(