Most of the time people refuse treatment to self or to their love one is due to a knowledge deficit. Another cause that make people to refuse the treatment is a myth from that subject. Both the knowledge deficit and the myth require a good patient education. “Vaccine refusal is increasingly common in pediatric practices, with 89% of pediatricians reporting at least 1 parental refusal per month and 10% reporting greater than a 10% refusal rate” (Bass, 2015, p. 21). First, I would educate the mother over the immune system of a child. After birth, a baby carries the mother immune until age 7 to 8. During that time a child immune system is not fully developed. There are many variety of infectious microbes in our environment like viruses, bacteria,
