From: "Jenny Thomas, MD, IBCLC"<She left after the third consecutive speaker 
decided to call doctors some variation on stupid.>

Exactly.  Doctors are not stupid.  And they mean well.  They simply don't 
know, and don't know that they don't know.

I think their resistance to finding out has natural unconscious reasons, not 
deliberate antipathy. And that should help us understand and accept them 
where they are. We have no right to assume they are trying to sabotage 
breastfeeding deliberately.  We have to strategise to overcome this 
unconscious resistance.  Diane shared her experience with effective ways of 
teaching doctors in a non-agressive way.

Nan Jolly M.B. B.Ch. I.B.C.L.C. LLLL
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

From Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  <<our local coalition put together mass 
mailings (including all pertinent area HCPs from pharmacists to 
dermatologists, depending) on topics that *a few* area physicians were 
seriously, um, uninformed about.  Everyone got the same information, no one 
was targeted, and perhaps a few of the papers didn't end up in waste 
baskets.  All I can say for sure is that the issues we did mailings on back 
then - thrush and antidepressants - don't seem to be local issues any more.

It might also be possible - though we didn't do it - to follow up with a 
note to the same people as needed saying, "Mothers' experiences indicate 
that there are still one or more offices that are unaware of the AAP's 
official position on XX.  We urge you to visit (website), to review the 
policy and the supporting research" or something like that. >>

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