Margaret Bickmore wrote, in part:
> At the very end, in the Questions and Discussion section, in response to
the
> question of how OBs can better support breastfeeding, Ruth Lawrence
> says, ". . . be careful of subtleties in your office. Physicians are so
used to
> dispensing prenatal vitamins that they don't realize the problem in giving
out
> free formula. Formula companies come to your office because pediatricians,
as a
> group, have refused to promote formula and don't have formula promotional
> material in their offices."
>
> Is this so, that pediatricians generally don't provide formula samples
and/or
> use formula promo material?  I was under the impression these things were
> fairly rampant.  However I have not actually been to a pediatrician's
office
> that I can recall (used family practice docs all my life).

In Columbus, Ohio -- home of one large formula manufacturer -- we could not
find a single pediatrician's office that did NOT have the promotional
materials all over their offices. Even the family practitioners had them all
over theirs.

Janice Berry

             ***********************************************
The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html