Rita,
You can report the adverse effect yourself. The doctor/hospital refusing to report the adverse effect is not ethical. They were probably too lazy or busy to fill out the form 3500A (and this is purely speculative on my part - there is most likely a risk management team at the institution with internal guidelines for these kinds of events).

The FDA and manufacturer will sort out whether it has merit or not.

The FDA monitors ALL vaccines VERY closely.

For consumer reporting instructions see: http://www.fda.gov/medwaTCH/how.htm

This is why we have a forum - for the free exchange of ideas. The points you brought up are valid concerns. Conversely, they do draw attention to the fact that information gleaned from the internet can be erroneous and misleading. OCF goes the distance to insure that facts presented here are science based with a peer review panel of experts (and I am not including myself in this group I am merely a cancer survivor myself and one of 3 forum administrators).

For what it's worth, IMHO the benefits outweigh the risks and if I had children I would not hesitate to have them vaccinated.

Ultimately, however, it is still a parental decision.