Hi all--
I'm trying like crazy to catch up on 10 days worth of posts.  There is alot
mentioned about doctor bashing.  I agree we shouldn't bash anyone unwarranted.
 The fact is, alot is said to new mothers who can't always sift the good from
the bad, and it is spoken with authority.
Bonny Nothern posted saying "Obviously we could just say "another dumb thing
people say about..." instead of adding the part about physicians."  Sorry, but
I don't agree.  If a priest or minister or rabbi told us definitively that
there was no God, wouldn't that be different than if "some person" told us the
same thing?
Women look to their physicians for quality MEDICAL information...not for their
opinions.  That gives a responsibility to give good, documentable information.
 When a physician, or nurse, or LC for that matter, gives opinion without
prefacing it as such, she/he does the mother a great disservice.  These people
deserve to be lambasted by their peers and others involved.  We pay physicians
a great deal of money for their advice.  The expectation is that they are
knowledgeable.  When they break that contract with a patient, they deserve
what they get!
Diane DiSandro, BA, IBCLC
LC in private practice--Audubon, PA
still wondering how pediatricians can be proclaimed baby-experts without
requiring even basic knowledge on the wonders of breastfeeding!