Stan L. Block, a pediatrician and pediatric professor at several universities in Kentucky has published many medical related articles, and has been recognized at a national level for his contributions in medical research. He describes the conflict that is presented to pediatricians when parents refuse to vaccinate or under vaccinate their children due to unfounded personal reasons. Block describes this anti-vaccine attitude as imposing limits to the physician-patient relationship; thus, hindering the physician's ability to provide the standard of care that he or she was trained to provide. The pediatrician is then faced with the decision-making of discharging the family from the practice on the basis of medical non-compliance as unvaccinated
