Israel Medical
Association Chief: Doctors in Hospitals Not Required to Get Flu Shot
by Deborah Danan 21 Jan 2018
TEL AVIV – Unlike
their U.S.
counterparts, Israeli doctors are not required to be vaccinated against influenza and in cases
where they do receive the flu shot,
are forbidden from displaying a pin advertising that fact to patients, the Jerusalem Post reported
on Wednesday.
While in the U.S. most hospitals demand that all
personnel who come in direct contact with patients receive the vaccination
before the flu season begins, the Israel Medical Association only recommends the
measure to its 25,000 members, the report said. It added that any outward
indication – such as a pin or tag – that doctors were voluntarily vaccinated
was not allowed.
IMA chairman Prof. Leonid Eidelman, who is chief of
anesthesiology at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva,
explained the reasons behind the policy, saying that if medical
practitioners “voluntarily wear a pin showing they were vaccinated, it
doesn’t give a good impression about those who don’t.”
“There is a slippery slope; doctors could be forced to
wear pins saying they have HIV or hepatitis C. It would never end,” he told the
Post.
“It’s a personal decision for everyone, and doctors
should not be dictated to,” he added. Eidelman further declined to answer
whether he himself had been vaccinated because “this is a political question.”
Meanwhile, in Manhattan’s NYU Langone Medical Center, all
employees – not just doctors and nurses – must get the flu
shot. “We are given a sticker to wear on our ID tag. Theoretically, if for
some reason you don’t get the shot, you need to wear a protective surgical mask
through the entire flu season,” a senior doctor told the Post.
Only 19% of Israel’s population has been vaccinated
against influenza, despite the shot being free.
According to the Ministry of Health’s epidemiology
department, 27 people of all ages died of complications resulting from the
flu in the last few months – double that of last year, the report said.
However, according to Eidelman, there are “no studies
showing that patients are infected with the flu by their doctors” or the reverse.
Let’s connect the dots:
American Medical Association
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the American Medical Association, the Novartis Corporation, Merck, and is the lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.
Note: Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the Harlem Children's Zone.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a
benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Doctors Without Borders.
Martin S. Indyk
is a foreign policy director for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel.
Thomas R.
Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Israel.
Mark B. McClellan
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a commissioner
for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
Michael P.
Schulhof is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and was a trustee at the NYU Langone
Medical Center.
Deryck C. Maughan
was a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical
Center, and the chairman & CEO for GlaxoSmithKline
plc.
William C.
Steere Jr. is a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center, and was the chairman & CEO for Pfizer Inc.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel,
was the lobby firm for MedImmune, LLC,
Pfizer Inc., and Sanofi.
Sanofi Pasteur
is a division of Sanofi.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), a
director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Wolf Blitzer is an
anchor for CNN, and was a correspondent
for the Jerusalem Post.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of the CNN.
Jeff
Zucker is the president of CNN
Worldwide, and a director emeritus for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Emma Bloomberg was
a chief of staff for the Robin Hood
Foundation, is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter, and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Victoria B.
Bjorklund is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and a U.S. advisory board member for Doctors Without Borders.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the CDC Foundation. Kenneth I.
Chenault is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
the CDC Foundation, and Doctors Without Borders.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Amy Robbins
Towers was a board member for the CDC
Foundation, and married to Larry
Robbins.
Larry Robbins
was married to Amy Robbins Towers,
and is the chairman for the Robin Hood
Foundation.
Laurence D. Fink
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a co-chair for the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Paul Tudor Jones
II is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and was a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Alan D. Schwartz
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Robert W. Pittman
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and was a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Emma Bloomberg was
a chief of staff for the Robin Hood Foundation,
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, Michael R. Bloomberg’s
daughter, and a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
the CDC Foundation, and Doctors Without Borders.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is Emma Bloomberg’s
father, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Kenneth G. Langone
is a director emeritus for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a trustee at the Harlem
Children's Zone, and a chair for the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Stanley F.
Druckenmiller is the chairman & benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and married to Fiona Druckenmiller.
Fiona
Druckenmiller is married to Stanley
F. Druckenmiller, a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center, and was a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Gary
D. Cohn was a trustee at the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
Steven
A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation, and the NYU
Langone Medical Center.
Fiona
Druckenmiller is a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center, married to Stanley
F. Druckenmiller, a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and was a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Thomas R.
Pickering was a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a U.S. ambassador for Israel, and is a distinguished fellow
at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Newton N. Minow
is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel,
was the lobby firm for MedImmune, LLC,
Pfizer Inc., and Sanofi.
Sanofi Pasteur
is a division of Sanofi.
R. Eden Martin is counsel
at Sidley Austin LLP, and the
president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Mark B. McClellan
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a commissioner
for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
Michael P.
Schulhof is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and was a trustee at the NYU Langone
Medical Center.
Deryck C. Maughan
was a trustee at the NYU Langone Medical
Center, and the chairman & CEO for GlaxoSmithKline
plc.
William C.
Steere Jr. is a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center, and was the chairman & CEO for Pfizer Inc.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for Pfizer Inc, was lobby firm for the Novartis Corporation, Merck, and the American Medical Association.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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