{"id":9538,"date":"2026-01-06T23:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-pediatricians-parents\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:03:58","slug":"childhood-vaccine-schedule-pediatricians-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-pediatricians-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 1993, a young couple expecting their first child walked into my office. As the new pediatric residency director at the University of California San Diego, I was eager to help them find the right doctor for their family. With my own pediatrics career just beginning, I was especially hopeful it would be me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During our meeting, the couple expressed concerns about recommended vaccines for their new baby. They wondered if it was too much, too soon. They wanted to know how I felt about that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-pediatricians-parents\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Richard Besser<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-pediatricians-parents\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines In 1993, a young couple expecting their first child walked into my office. As the new pediatric residency director at the University of California San Diego, I was eager to help them find the right doctor for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2433,2143,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-first-opinion","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}