What are your thoughts about getting together to make up a short  monthly one
page little "Keeping Abreast"  Newsletter with information we want them to
know (0ne topic per month - brief).  It would serve the purpose of not
singling out doctors who are ignorant and mismanaging and still being able to
send them information in a very non-ego-threatening way.  Also if we did it
as a group it would be a way to deliver consistent messages to all of them.
 I've been thinking about doing this in my agency but it's a big project to
do alone.  Remember I mentioned this one particular problematic doctor who
wanted to hospitalize a healthy baby if the bili went to 12 and who refused
to treat the mom for thrush and told her to use vaseline of her nipples and
stop nursing for five days?  I had sent him a very nice letter telling him I
understood how someone as busy with his practice as he is might find it hard
to keep up with all the new information that is always being reported about
breastfeeding and I told him we had a mutual client and what she told me
about their conversation regarding her baby and jaundice and I  sent him an
article by a Dr. about treatment and management of jaundice and some notes I
had from conferences I attended which addressed the subject.  I saw him in
synagogue last night and I would have like to say hello and see his reaction
but he seemed to purposely avoid making eye contact with me.  I hope I'm
wrong.  I hope I did not P--s him off.  I also sent the letter and materials
without first having it approved by "big brother"  (supervisors in my
agency). If he mentions it to the chief honcho I could be in deep trouble.
 I'm in encough trouble.  I'm the one who also got written up for doing her
job of breastfeeding promotion a couple of weeks ago because one new mother
found me to be pushy.  A monthly newsletter to the doctors might be helpful
in my situation so I had this brainstorm about doing it all together on a
Bigger scale for all of us who need such a thing to use.  There is someone
out there who is doing a monthly fax to the doctors and she will let me know
more about how it is going at a later date.

For the person who asked - WIC stands for women, infants, children - it's a
federally funded USDA program of nutrition education with healthy food
supplementation via a voucher system (unlike food stamps where people buy all
kinds of stuff that they have no right buying IMO on taxpayers money (like
lobster, fillet mignon, convenience foods, and junk food).  Even though WIC
is the largest purchaser of ABM it is mandated to have a breastfeeding
coordinator and to do promotion and support of breastfeeding as the preferred
feeding method for infants. I hope that answers the question.