NY Times: Healing the doctor-patient divide.

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"More and more Americans feel disconnected from their doctors, especially compared to a generation ago. And they certainly have less confidence in the profession as a whole. In 1966, a Harris Poll found that almost three-quarters of Americans had “a great deal†of confidence in their health care leaders. That number has steadily dropped over the last four decades, so that today only slightly more than a third feel the same way, the same poll shows ...There is a tragic irony in the growing divide between us. We all want the same thing: the best care possible. But we have lost the ability

to converse thoughtfully with one another. And because of that loss, we can no longer discuss the meaning of illness, care, health and policy in a way that is relevant to all of us. My hope is that we can revive that conversation. Not in a clinic or hospital room, but here on the Web ........................"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/health/chen9-11.html?partner=rssnyt & emc=rss

"The public has many questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. While more parents are showing increased concern about these issues and the growing number of vaccines to be administered to infants and children from day one of life, there is a growing interest on the part of vaccine manufacturers, state legislatures and medical societies to enforce vaccination on all children, through the passing of more and more state vaccine mandates, without first having a dialogue with the public, or the medical community." - Dr Lawrence Palevsky, MD. Pediatrician.

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