Hi All,

Evi asked me about military docs, since I have 25+ years as a consumer of
government-run health care and taught in a military hospital for 6 years.
 IMHO, you can't paint military docs (or nurses or technicians or hospitals)
with any one brush any more than you can paint civilian docs (or nurses or
technicians or hospitals). MIlitary health care providers must prevent and
treat some conditions that simply do not occur in civilian life, so they have
additional skills that are unknown and unnecessary in the same category of
civilian provider. For "ordinary" health problems, like perinatal care, the
military health systems have actually been a step ahead of the civilian (US)
community in using nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, Physician assistants,
family medicine specialists, etc. IMHO, the breastfeeding care provided has
much more to do with the individual practitioner than who writes their
paycheck.

Linda Smith, Dayton OH