Rachel says,
> If the recipient is the mothers, then it gets stickier,
> because it is being delivered by a middleman. Wonder why?
> If the hospital is the recipient and the formula company is the beneficent
> giver of gifts, then it is very bad manners for the formula company to
> stipulate how the gift is to be used. If the formula company seems to
> think
> it has the right to attach strings to the recipients use of the gift,
> *maybe* it is not a gift at all, but a marketing tool and a pretty low-down
> one at that. Of course we know that couldn't be the case, right?
>
When my mother had bypass surgery, the only "gift" she got was a teddy bear
from her physicians which was used as her "huggy" for coughing & deep
breathing. She didn't get a darn thing from the hospital. Nothing. Nary a
gift. Not a flower, not a candy bar, not even a single can of Ensure. In
fact, she had to PAY the hospital to take care of her for several days before
and after the surgery. Isn't that a shock? Not a single present -- and she
was a lovely patient, too. You woulda thought they would give her something,
wouldn't you?
No, you wouldn't. Why should you get a gift from the hospital because you
are a patient there? Whether it is having an appendectomy, recovering from a
stroke, getting your diabetes under control, or having a baby -- why should
you get a gift?
If the formula companies are going to give a gift to every mother, then I
suggest they pay a rep to apply for privileges in the hospital to come in and
distribute them to all the mothers rather than having the nurses do their
dirty work. I don't understand why a staff nurse has to be the middle man,
bringing in a Trojan Horse that is going to undermine the health of the
infants for whom the "gift" is intended.
Yup -- Trojan Horse, that's what those diaper bags are....instead of
disguised death, it is bunnies & bears bearing illness.
Odd, isn't it?
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, RLC
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com
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