Originally Posted by jillio

It would not matter what the patient or the family remembers, if it was standard protocol to have documentation of proof of the vaccine prior to ever wheeling that child into the operating room. And whowould be responsible for making certain that documentation was available? The physican directly, his auxillary staff indirectly. But as the auxillary staff function only as an agent of, and under the supervision of the physician, responsibility still falls squarely onthe shoulders of the person holding the knife.