In a message dated 98-07-02 00:13:29 EDT, K Bruce writes:

<< Why is the onus of responsibility for
 learning not placed on each individual when bf is concerned?

 I for one, am not interested in purchasing books etc to offices that can
 well afford them, and I do not believe that giving people resources that
 they are not interested in will *make* them interested.  It just goes in the
 "read some day maybe.." pile. >>


Kathleen, I agree with you about where the onus of responsibility falls.
However, I wonder whether the question of onus is more important than the
question of gettng everyone on the same page, preferably a good page.

I also think that maybe Gail's (to my mind, wise) comment about getting grants
or otherwise helping put bf tool in docs hands are best applied to the kind of
docs she is -- docs in training.  I might agree with you more that it's their
own problem if we are talking about well-established pediatric practices that
can afford what they need to afford.  But putting Lawrence and Hale &
Auerbach&Riordan into the libraries that pediatric residents use tells them:
yes, this *is* part of your training, this *is* part of the body of knowledge
that you are supposed to be exposed to --- even if the senior pediatricians on
your teaching staff might not yet realize it.   Residents spend a lot of time
researching for rounds, and getting them used to using these research tools
may be a way of influencing what they *do* buy for themselves when they *are*
in their own practices later.

Elisheva Urbas
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