Kathleen noted,

<< My take on this is that if a professional needs to know something, they
need
 to take the initiative to purchase or  get a hold, somehow, of the
 professional resources that they need to learn whatever they need to learn.
 I mean, no one buys my latest copies of Ruth Lawrence, Auerbach and Riordan,
>>

True -- and when was the last time you disagreed with another HCP (nurse,
physician, dietician, physical therapist) on something, and they actually
bothered to give you an article to "prove" their point.

Giving HCPs info isn't dreadfully useful, IMHO.  Generally goes in the
circular file.  Simply citing chapter & verse ("the study by Lucas in
Lancet....blah blah blah...") is probably all that is needed.  Of course, it
means keeping a number of studies in one's head...very FEW HCPs change their
practice based on scientific research anyway.  Most of them change their
practice because of personal experience, or because a colleague (read:
someone on the same level -- physician to physician; nurse to nurse) who works
with them on a daily basis (same office, same nursery, same MB Unit) wears
them away little by little, slowly, slowly.

For the most part, IBCLCs are the only ones that are trying to cram research
down everyone's collective throats to make their point.  Perhaps it's because
we are still trying to prove ourselves and that bf is important.  I'm not
saying we shouldn't do it; I'm just wondering how useful it is.

Jan Barger -- who still recalls the pediatrician who told me that unless there
was a study on anklyglossia involving 1000 children with tongue tie randomly
assigned 50-50 to clipping or not clipping, and published in a "reputable"
pediatric journal, I could send him 100 articles on tongue tie and he wouldn't
believe in clipping.