I'm not quite sure this is fair. If we apply this thinking in reverse, do I, as a
doc, get to question your entire knowledge base if you say something that I
think is contrary to what I know or is published?
I understand that you think that infant feeding should be in the core of
knowledge for docs, and I don't disagree (and residency programs are more
and more incorporating breastfeeding education) but to make sweeping
assumptions about a practitioners knowledge base because of what he/she
knows or doesn't know about breastfeeding would discredit an awful lot of
caring, giving, smart physicians.
Plus, our days aren't just about breastfeeding. Just yesterday, I dealt with a
teenager with suicidal ideation, parents with concerns about feeding,
discipline, warts, kids with infections galore, people looking for sleep advice,
driving safety info, ADHD meds, home violence resources. I had follow up with
a child with coarctation, saw a child with congenital nystagmus. I ordered a
few tests, scans, and interpreted a few more. I talked about autism,
developmental delay, resources for gifted children, the importance of reading
to your children and tried to get help from a psychiatrist for a child with post-
traumatic stress symptoms from a car accident. I saw 10 breastfeeding kids.
I saw 25 who weren't breastfeeding.
I was not very knowledgeable about breastfeeding until the IBCLC in my
hospital brought to my attention some thing I could "improve on." I was not a
bad doc then, I just had some learning to do. We all do. If you are a position
to improve a knowledge base, I would teach, not criticize.
Jenny Thomas
www.drjen4kids.com
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