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Getting Past What You Never Get Over
Getting Past What You’ll Never Get Over: Help for Dealing with Life’s Hurts
An alternative approach to dealing with emotional trauma presented by author and Pastor John F.Westfall. He suggests acceptance over suffering. He provides scriptural passages and supports their usefulness in emotional problem solving in a gentle faith-based manner. Though those coping with trauma are likely of many faiths, they may find this book and method comforting and applicable.
Nurses Against Forced Flu Vaccines
In spite of harassments for not compromising, these nurses keep a professional attitude and make the best of difficult circumstances for the sake of the patients. Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines |
Health Impact News
As 2014 begins to unfold, it is becoming clear that the medical care industry is facing a crisis.
We have already reported about how many doctors are refusing to participate in the new Obamacare health insurance exchanges (See: Seven out of every 10 Physicians in California are Rebelling against Obamacare). But another unintended consequence of new medical care legislation is the refusal of nurses to comply with new mandatory flu vaccination requirements. With a nation-wide shortage in nurses already problematic long before Obamacare was implemented, things are only going to get worse.
Experienced nurses across the United States are choosing to lose their jobs rather than submit to forced mandatory flu vaccinations. This began last flu season, in 2012, and we reported many stories of brave nurses standing up for their rights and refusing to submit to mandatory flu vaccinations as a requirement to keeping their jobs. (See: Brave Nurses Lose Jobs to Stand on Principle and Refuse Forced Vaccinations)
Unfortunately, many of our nation’s best nurses were already lost at the beginning of the 2012-2013 flu season as new mandates in Obamacare kicked in, requiring medical care facilities to have a 90% compliance to the flu vaccine as a requirement to receive full reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid. (See: Are Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Healthcare Workers part of Obamacare and Linked to Financial Reimbursement to Healthcare Facilities?)
The trend towards losing nurses over the mandatory flu vaccine has continued this flu season, in 2013-2014.
For example, Dreonna Breton, a registered nurse in Pennsylvania, lost her job recently due to refusing the vaccine based on medical reasons. She is pregnant, and has a history of miscarriages. Her doctor advised her NOT to get the flu vaccine, but her hospital refused her exemption and fired her. (See also: Flu Vaccines NOT Tested on Pregnant Women)
For those nurses who are granted exemptions to avoid the flu vaccine, they are forced to wear masks while at work, for the entire flu season. Since studies show that even those who are vaccinated can still pass on the influenza virus, and since the requirement to vaccinate 90% of medical care workers with the flu vaccine is a financial consideration for getting the full federal funds available for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, this requirement to single out those refusing vaccines is a clear case of discrimination and harassment.
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny recently stated in a T.V. interview that she has received letters from hospital workers that have no contact whatsoever with patients complaining that they too are being forced to receive the flu vaccination as a condition of employment. She reported that one such letter was from someone working in a hospital IT (Information technology) department four blocks away from any building housing patients.
Nurses across the country are gathering together on the Internet, such as the Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines Facebook Page, and proudly displaying their masks as badges of honor in not giving in to intimidation and medical tyranny. They are some of the few honorable people left in the corrupt medical system.
See Also:
Student Who Refused to Lie About Vaccines and was Kicked out of Nursing School Fights Back with Lawsuit
CDC Study: Mandatory Flu Vaccinations of Health Care Workers Offer NO Protection to Patients
Resources:
Vaccine Rights – Alan Phillips, J.D., Attorney and Counselor at Law
Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines Facebook Page
National Vaccine Information Center
Sign a petition at Change.org against mandatory flu vaccines.
Flu and Flu Vaccines:
What’s Coming Through That Needle – DVD
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Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm
Canadian physician Dr. Andrew Moulden provided clear scientific evidence to prove that every dose of vaccine given to a child or an adult produces harm. The truth that he uncovered was rejected by the conventional medical system and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, his warning and his message to America remains as a solid legacy of the man who stood up against big pharma and their program to vaccinate every person on the Earth.
Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49.
Because of the strong opposition from big pharma concerning Dr. Moulden’s research, we became concerned that the name of this brilliant researcher and his life’s work had nearly been deleted from the internet. His reputation was being disparaged, and his message of warning and hope was being distorted and buried without a tombstone. This book summarizes his teaching and is a must-read for everyone who wants to learn the “other-side” of the vaccine debate that the mainstream media routinely censors.
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Nurses Refuse Flu Vaccine
More Nurses Refuse Flu Vaccine and Lose Their Jobs – Will only pro-vaccine people soon work at hospitals?
Published by Health Impact News on January 2, 2013
Health Impact News Editor Comments: I applaud these nurses who stood up for their beliefs, and in some cases their faith in God and what they felt God was leading them to do, even though it cost them their jobs. If we are going to STOP the medical system’s take over of all our personal health freedoms, this is what it is going to take. The pharmaceutical companies who manufacture these vaccines are among the worst criminals in our society today, showing they care more about profits than they do people’s actual health. (See: Pharmaceutical companies now among largest corporate criminals in the world: no better than white-collar drug dealers )
Also, the CDC’s claim that the flu shot is about “60% effective” has been shown to be completely false by good science. See: Flu Vaccines Offer No Benefit: Cochrane Review of Evidence and Scientists Conclude: Flu Shots “Overpromoted and Overhyped”)
Eight hospital employees oppose mandatory flu shots, get fired
By: Angelle Barbazon
The Elkhart Truth
Goshen, Indiana
Excerpts:
Joyce Gingerich, an oncology nurse at IU Health Goshen Hospital, had two options — get a flu shot or lose her job. It was a tough choice, but Gingerich and seven others at the hospital stood their ground and refused to receive the vaccination. Their last day of work was Tuesday.
“I knew that I could not compromise my personal belief system for a job,” explained Gingerich, who had worked at the hospital on and off since 1987. “It was really sad to leave that job. In all my years of nursing, it was my favorite.”
Gingerich does not discount the hospital’s position of wanting to protect patients from illness, but she said the flu vaccination is not right for her.
“We all have different faith walks,” said Gingerich, who describes herself as a nondenominational Christian. “I feel like in my personal faith walk, I have felt instructed not to get a flu vaccination, but it’s also the whole matter of the right to choose what I put in my body and what I feel God wants me to put in versus someone mandating what I put in. It is a very big issue for me.”
Gingerich was horrified that she was forced to choose between her beliefs and her job, but ultimately she said she knew what the right path was for her.
“I feel like our religious freedoms are being challenged and not honored in a country that supposedly has these freedoms,” she said.
Ethel Hoover, who was a critical care nurse at the Goshen hospital, wrestled with the idea of receiving a flu shot and ultimately refused the vaccination. Hoover’s exemption request was denied, and she was let go from her job roughly a month short of her 22nd anniversary at the hospital.
The last time Hoover had a flu shot was about 20 years ago. Hoover said she got sick and decided to never take one again, adding that she was also worried about long-term health effects from the vaccination.
“Your body has its natural responses to fight off certain viruses and infections, and if you continually inoculate your body with something that’s not even guaranteed from preventing you from getting it, why would you do it,” Hoover asked.
Hoover pointed out that patients are given the option to refuse flu vaccinations and said she should be afforded that same right.
“As a nurse, my passion was to be the best advocate I could be for my patients,” she said. “They knew I could be there for them even if sometimes it caused a rippling of the waters, but as a nurse there was no advocate for me except for several physicians who attempted to go to bat for our cause, but they were denied. So, what message is this sending to the public if this institution shoots down their own patient advocates?”
Sue Schrock started hearing talk about a vaccination mandate last year. Schrock, like Gingerich and Hoover, was a nurse at the hospital in Goshen, and like her two colleagues was let go from her job after her exemption application was rejected, and she refused to receive a vaccination.
Schrock believes that there are other steps people can take to stay healthy rather than getting a flu shot, like taking natural vitamins, eating well and exercising. The last time she had a flu shot was about 30 years ago.
“I just learned more and more about natural healing,” she said. “We’ve been using natural products for a good 20 years, and that’s the way we believe healing takes place.”
Schrock said her decision to decline the vaccination was, in part, “God-led.”
“I’m a pretty quiet, spiritual person, and for me, it was a big decision, but it was something that was very meaningful for me not to have in my body,” she said.
This experience has changed Schrock’s outlook on IU Health Goshen Hospital.
“I don’t care if I ever walk through those doors again, but I’m going to miss it,” she said. “I love my hospice patients, and I love my hospice colleagues. I will miss them immensely.”
Read the Full Story Here: http://www.etruth.com/article/20121231/NEWS01/712319946
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Nurses Lose Jobs
Brave Nurses Lose Jobs to Stand on Principle and Refuse Forced Vaccinations
Reprinted from Health Impact News – January 5, 2013
Earlier this week we reported the story of the eight hospital workers in Goshen Indiana who lost their jobs because they refused a mandatory flu shot (see: More Nurses Refuse Flu Vaccine and Lose Their Jobs – Will only pro-vaccine people soon work at hospitals?)
Two of the nurses also made rounds on the major network TV news channels earlier this week, and you can watch them interviewed on Fox and Friends here: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/01/03/nurses-fired-for-refusing-to-get-flu-shot-speak-out/ – Quote:
“Despite the hospital’s claims that the flu-shot mandate was enacted in an effort to protect patients, the women say that the hospital failed to provide concrete medical evidence that the flu vaccine would actually prevent employees from passing the flu on to patients. Gingerich suggested that common sense solutions like washing one’s hands frequently and staying home when you are sick would be more effective.”
(Editor’s note: See: Study Shows Soap May Be More Effective Than Vaccines with some solid science backing up Joyce Gingerich’s statement.)
As we have repeatedly reported here on Health Impact News, the entire belief system that the flu vaccine prevents people from getting the flu is a belief that is not based on any sound science. Even the CDC states that if they get a good flu strain match the vaccine will only help 60% of the people who get the flu shot, which means by the government’s own claims 40% of the people (in the best case scenarios) who get the flu shot will still get the flu!
But there is solid science which would appear to even question the CDC’s claims of “60% effectiveness” in good years where they get the right virus strains into their vaccines (See: Flu Vaccines Offer No Benefit: Cochrane Review of Evidence and Scientists Conclude: Flu Shots “Overpromoted and Overhyped.”)
So while Joyce Gingerich and Sue Schrock made the rounds of the network news shows earlier this week, none of the reporters doing the interviews asked the important questions. It is doubtful that any of them had done their homework to learn basic facts about the flu vaccine, such as the fact that it is not a guarantee that one will not be affected by the flu simply by getting the flu shot, or what the side effects are of the vaccine.
There was one nurse from Indiana, however, a nurse who has a vaccine-damaged child, that DID ask the right questions when she called up someone in the Infection Prevention program in the Indiana University hospital system. As one of the members of the Indiana Coalition for Vaccination Choice, she decided to contact the person leading the Infection Prevention program within the Indiana University Health that includes the healthcare facilities across the state of Indiana. This nurse asked the tough questions the media is NOT asking, such as: Who is actively monitoring these mandatory flu vaccine programs for efficacy and adverse reactions? Why are some exemptions granted, but those with religious convictions are not? Who pays when an employee is harmed by the vaccine? How do they justify robbing their employees constitutional rights by mandating a drug that can’t even be proven to work for them?
Here is the record of her conversation:
I began by introducing myself as a nurse that has an interest in vaccines and vaccine policies. I spoke of the recent reports I have seen on one facility in Goshen firing nurses for refusing this drug due to religious convictions. I asked for answers as to why these policies are being enacted, who is actively monitoring these programs for efficacy and adverse reactions and who pays in the event of an adverse reaction.
I also wanted to know how many exemptions were filed. How many were approved and who decides?
She started with why they are mandating the flu vaccine. Her group of facilities has implemented this mandate due to public and infection control outcry to increase the numbers of HCW being vaccinated. No matter what they have tried; education, making it available, NOTHING “moved the dot” on levels of vaccination. HCW just would not get the vaccine in appropriate numbers to reach our objective of 90% or greater.
She went on to explain her many years of experience in infection control and now the goal of preventing harm to patients is escalating. I had to throw out my credentials of years as a public health nurse and even more years as a parent of a severely vaccine injured child. I told her my son’s story in a nut shell. I kept it short as I was very aware she had pressing matters she needed to attend to. Her response was “It makes me very sad that you have had that experience with vaccination but I do not believe vaccination causes autism”.
I told her of Hannah Poling, the Italy case and the tens of thousands of us reporting the same post marketing experience with these drugs. She knew nothing of Hannah Poling or the recent Italy judgement, but she is sure vaccines do not cause autism. We were knocking heads over this when she asked if I had any further questions as we were getting nowhere.
I asked about the committee deciding religious exemptions. I asked if they are refusing exemptions based on trying to keep their vaccinated numbers in a certain percentage.
She said absolutely not.
I asked how a committee can decide if another persons religious convictions are legitimate or not. I told her I attended a Mennonite church. I keep my hair long. I do not wear jewelry. I do not vaccinate based on my religious beliefs. I asked how that committee would know about my religious beliefs. She said they review them and make their decision. Period. She did not give me an answer on how they would possibly discern my religious convictions.
I moved on to active surveillance of adverse reactions to these products. She said no active surveillance is being done.
I asked if the employees were educated on signs of the many possible adverse reactions and how to report them. She said no, but they had already received some reports of adverse reactions and she has no doubt that serious reactions would get reported.
I explained that most people do not think about the vaccine they got as correlated to symptoms months down the road. She said they are only concerned about adverse reactions that take place within 6 weeks of the vaccine because reactions do not occur after that.
I said how do we know they do not occur after that if we’re are not actively looking for evidence that they might or do? She said the CDC actively monitors that through VAERS. I corrected her that VAERS is only a passive system and most never get reported.
She said serious adverse reactions are very very rare and they are not concerned about their employees suffering any harm.
She confidently told me the risk for Guillian Barre is far greater after the flu than the vaccine. She then told me the CDC is their bible in infection control.
I asked how they will track the effectiveness of this vaccine in their employees. She said they are not tracking how many vaccinated employees get the flu because that is impossible as many employees will not even know they have the flu. Everyone will not get tested, and even if they do, the rapid test kits are very inaccurate.
I asked if it is impossible to track vaccine effectiveness, how do they justify robbing their employees constitutional rights by mandating a drug that can’t even be proven to work for them?
That was it. She said she had to go and that I will not change her mind.
I told her I am calling for the HCW’s who want the right to choose. She said they are working with us.
I said no, they are not. “You are firing them if they refuse these drugs. How is that working with you? They will lose their homes and starve.”
I wanted to know who is responsible for an employee being harmed by these drugs? (I might be wrong, but I get the feeling some people do not like for me to refer to vaccines as drugs.) I wanted to know who pays when an employee is harmed? She said vaccines are safe and that is where she and I are not in agreement.
I asked if she thinks the manufacturer puts “death and life-long disability” on the package insert for a reason?
She said there are those that can have a bad reaction and they need to be screened out. I asked: “How that is possibly being done when everyone is mandated to get these drugs?”
She assured me she had to go now.
I asked one more question.
I asked if Pertussis vaccination was next to be mandated? She said they were looking at that.
I thanked her for her time. Please understand, I am not trying to argue with these people. I am defending these individuals right to determine what risks they are willing to take with their own lives, and their right to protect their religious beliefs.
Vaccines are drugs KNOWN to cause death, severe impairment and life-long disability. How does a person know they are at risk for an adverse reaction until it happens? No studies are being done on all the individuals that have received compensation from the vaccine injury compensation program to determine those risk factors. If we never actively look, we will never find.
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I thank the members of the Indiana Coalition for Vaccination Choice for their efforts in exposing the beliefs and policies in place in Indiana that caused these brave nurses to lose their jobs, so that hopefully others can be more informed before making such a serious decision as to be forcibly vaccinated against one’s own convictions in order to save their employment in the medical care industry.