AAP News Vol. 15 No. 8 August 1999, p. 22
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'Good old days' disputed

Stanley A. Plotkin M.D., FAAP1

1 Doylestown, Pa.

Dr. Gorlick complains that there are too many new vaccines, which he believes cause excessive pain and excessive expense (AAP News, June). In particular he doesn't like the expansion of recommendations for hepatitis A vaccination.

Should one infer that Dr. Gorlick prefers disease? Hepatitis A produces severe disability, fulminant hepatitis and social disruption when epidemic. I doubt that many other physicians would prefer the "good old days" of pertussis, polio, meningitis, etc. Perhaps as a corrective, Dr. Gorlick should take a sabbatical in some developing country.