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I don't work in a hospital but here is my 2 cents:
Of course the obvious answer is it's just good business to them, why buy
something if they can get it for free. I think the reason it doesn't happen it
other areas of the hospital is because they don't have a product to promote
that can be bought at the store directly like formula without the need of a dr.
Formula is a "need" for *every baby* where as the number of needs for another
type of product is only for a specific group of people which is smaller.
In Marsha's post she talks about HIPPA and how that should make it wrong for
the hospital to give out formula but they still do. But has HIPPA changed
this practice- of course not. Why? Because until things are *enforced* it will
not change. And formula is seen as so cultural and "ok" that to many it isn't
even considered as something wrong with giving them out and surely formula
doesn't fall under HIPPA. Gift bags are seen as something kind, you give a
gift when a baby is born to celebrate, to show the hospital cares etc.
Kind of funny that *every* time I go to the dr./hospital I am signing that
HIPPA paper!
Kim Ann Lorber
mom to 4 breastfed boys
LLL Leader
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