What can I do locally if I am against the mandatory flu vaccine?

[lolakbolak]

I still believe in personal choice regardless of what president Obama mandates me to do.

If I was a drug company giant and stood to make billions of dollars by pushing a vaccine or drug, I might just interfere in policy and advertising to increase my profit. If you have a patient who is struggling to recover after GBS and it doesn't bother you a bit, then I am at a loss for words. Does anybody know exactly what the flu vaccine contains? How confident are you in these drug trials where billions of dollars at at stake?

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

GBS is a relatively rare disease. Unless you work at a "center of excellence" for GBS, it's difficult to believe that any single practitioner can deal with enough cases to infer statistical significance for one theory or the other.

^ I am fully aware of how rare GBS is. I worked in a rehab where the specialty of SCI was the majority pt population, hence, the incidence of GBS and whether it was idiopathic or a cause. I had more causes based on influenza than unattenuated influenza, or vaccines, so, again, speaking of evidenced based practice, not opinion. And it is known as a "center for excellence" in SC disorders.