I thought we might have a measles epidemic on our hands.
There's not much chance of that. Almost all the children I've seen have been jabbed for MMR. There's only two or three mothers left in the village who haven't seen reason.
Maybe they're scared.
What are they scared of?
Well there's autism.
No, there isn't.
Martin, a friend of mine took her son to the doctor. He was nearly two, perfectly healthy, they gave him the jab, and he changed overnight. Just shut down completely.
Because of the MMR vaccine?
That's what she thinks.
Is she very stupid?
Look, it stands to reason that giving a child three viruses at the same time must increase their chance of some kind of reaction.
It stands to reason?
Martin, I have read about the studies linking MMR to bowel disease.
There was one so-called "study" but that's been refuted by people who actually know what they're talking about. And the hysteria that's stopped people giving their children the MMR vaccine has actually caused an increase in cases of measles, which is a horrible disease.
Thank you, Doctor.
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More Doc Martin quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's Doc Martin pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.