Vaccinations- Should Docs "Fire" Families That Refuse?

I had to chime in on this one real quick, I saw it on the front page. Firstly, I was actually "fired" by the pediatrician I had picked out when my middle daughter was born because my DH, who was deployed to Iraq at the time, were delaying vaccinations at the time due to both autism and SIDS that ran in his side of the family. We felt it was prudent at the time to delay them. The pediatrician indicated that if I wasn't going to do as she felt necessary as a doctor with a medical degree, then she didn't want us at her practice. Honestly, at that point, I was well educated and researched on vaccinations, she didn't care what my reasons were behind delaying them, AND that indicated to me that in the future, whether it was vaccinations, or any treatment plan that I didn't necessarily agree with as a parent, that she recommended, that we may have issues working together for the best interests of MY child. I called around and finally switched to a pediatrician that I absolutely love and is fine with my decisions about vaccinating my children. He asks me each time we go in if we are doing any, I tell him my answer and he says okay and moves on. Others in his practice, including his nurse, have been "nice enough" to give me the lectures, hand outs, pamplets, USB drives and CD's full of research, but our main pediatrician is fine.

Secondly, all pediatricians that I go to almost always have had a separate block of time devoted to infants for well child visits and sick visits so they don't interact with older kids who are sick and could be more contagious to the vulnerable infants, or other pediatricians have had separate waiting areas for them.

I respect that doctors can pick and choose patients, just like I can pick and choose my doctor. I think it should be mentioned that most parents that delay or do not do vaccinations are highly educated and research their position and their reasons for vaccinating, and while I know that my doctor went to medical school, that does not mean they are always 100% up on the most recent research and studies on vaccinations and the pressure of the medical companies coming in giving them things isn't always the best way to judge what is the best thing to prescribe to a patient IMO. We rarely have a need to go to the doctor, we go in once a year for well child visits, sports physicals for the older one, and once in a while possibly an ear infection, strep throat or something else, but overall, usually the unvaccinated children (from what I have seen and experienced) are also some of the healthiest kids. Just my two cents.