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Date: | Sat, 8 Nov 2003 06:23:39 EST |
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Priscilla you wrote, "It certainly was a lesson on thinking before speaking.
I sure wish that I could go back and do it all (right) over again. It feels
awful to have hurt someone so much."
I am not sure I should comment because I was not there to hear what you said
or talk to the person that supposedly feels bad. But I think health care
professionals have an obligation to give facts based on evidence. We are not
responsible for others perceptions/emotions. That is something out of our
control. Deliberate hurting of someone by knowingly saying something that would hurt
them is one thing, giving evidence is another.
I had the wonderful experience of working with someone who like myself was
promoting breastfeeding. She had never had children nor was that a possibility.
She really had no emotional investment in what the mother did or did not do.
She spoke the facts. After I shared with her Marsha Walker's Risks of
Artifical Feeding, she would state the statistics (10 fold risk of hospitalization
for bacterial infections, etc) She got mothers to make a commitment to at
least make the attempt to breastfeed. I don't think she went home wondering if
she hurt someone's feelings. She was doing her job--educating them. Just as
she educated them on cigarette smoking and the risks.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC
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