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Subject: Communicating with MDs

My name is Priscilla Hall, and I am a certified nurse midwife at Provident
Hospital in Chicago.  I have been lurking on Lactnet for several months now,
and this particular morning felt compelled to join the discussion.
I do think a newsletter to physicians offering current, pertinent information
on breastfeeding issues is one important way to tackle the problem, and I'd
like to offer my support to Ms. Meltzer for thinking of it(and to all of the
rest of you who have to come up with creative ways to combat the ignorance of
breastfeeding in the medical profession).
The posting expressed some concern about offending the physician(I think she
used a stronger term to describe that phenomenon), and I wanted to make a few
remarks about this.  I think it is never wrong to express the truth!
 Communicating with MDs and hospitals is tricky at best, and most often
likely to draw an unpleasant response, but that should not stop anyone from
saying "...the emperor has no clothes."  We did not invent our professional
body of knowledge, nor is it solely based on long standing custom or old
wives tales.  It is based on medical and other research.
What we know needs to be communicated to anyone who doesn't have the
information, be that a client or an MD.  This should be done calmly,
diplomatically, politely...but it should be done.  Again and again and again,
until they get used to hearing us talk...maybe in 25 years?
As a CNM, I'm finding it helpful to take the long range view of things these
days.

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