Those notes I posted were from about 7 years ago.They were given in a
lecture with med students and residents. Half was in caps because those were
the actual copies of handouts.I would never tell anybody anything from those
handouts now. However, in med school that is what we were actual taught and
were suppose to manage infant nutrition according to those notes. Nothing
about breastfeeding was taught. Someone did email me privately and tell me
Medical College of Georgia was trying to become baby friendly.I posted those
notes in part because I suspect some residency programs are still teaching a
lot of infant nutrition like that. When I read the notes after 7 years I
realized why it is so hard to change the way doctors think.They have had
this type of information drilled into them for several years by attending
physicians they respect. While, some physicians remain extremely unrational,
I think some physician attitudes  about breastfeeding could be changed if
redirected appropriately. The majority just don't even know where to start.
I also posted them in part because of the discussion on lactnet teaching
residents, I thought that some of you who have the opportunity to give a
lecture to med students and residents might find it useful to see what has
been taught. I suspect my educational experience at MCG at the time was
similar to what was going on in other schools.
Again, I would never tell anybody anything from those notes. I hope this
clarifies. The only advice I would give is to breastfeed. If someone is
having a problem with formula and they didn't want to breastfeed, I would
have to refer them to a pediatrician because I would not have any idea how
to manage the formula problems.

Denise Punger MD FAAFP
Florida


http://doctor.medscape.com/denisepungermd


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