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Phyllis Adamson IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:18:14 -0700
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Maybe is has something to do with needing to stay employed to keep the family fed and the mortgage paid.

As I understand it, our Code of Ethics does not oblige strict adherence when the employer requires the IBCLC to do something, as part of their assigned duties for that employer, that the IBCLC would never do on her own because of her respect for her profession, for the Code (both Codes), and for the mothes and babies she helps. This has happened many times to IBCLCs who work in hospitals. Their stress is reflected in Lactnet archives.

When your company is bought out by, or is compromised by, a Code violator, what do you do when you need your job? In a better economy, one could quit to preserve one's pride and ethics, but when jobs for IBCLCs are scarce and you need to help support your family, it's the old Rock vs Hard Place situation for people with no financial alternatives.

With great good luck, that Code violater begins to see the errors of their ways and works hard to change their business practices to comply with, and advocate for, the Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes. And the IBCLC stays in the good graces of her profession and her Code of Ethics. We've seen that happen, too.

Just my opinion and assuming the best of those IBCLCs in these situations.
Phyllis


---- Michael and Donna More' <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

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Renee,
You stated: 
"....Although I feel it is a violation of ethics, obviously some do not.   How many other people work for a company that is hired to work with negatively impacting Breastfeeding Company?..."

I could not agree with you more. Let's also not forget the connection that Abbott Nutrition has with Prolacta Bioscience: 

"....Abbott Nutrition entered into a co-promotion agreement with Prolacta Bioscience, a life science company that creates specialty formulations made from human milk for the nutritional needs of premature and critically ill infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). This co-promotion agreement will help to make human milk-based nutritional products more widely available for health care professional use in the NICUs of hospitals across the U.S...." http://prolacta.com/faq_abbott.php?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=prolacta&utm_content=sample&utm_campaign=Branded

Which again brings me to consider the ethics of IBCLCs who work for Prolacta milk banks. Somehow I can not figure that out.
Sincerely,
Donna More' LLL, RN, IBCLC
Haddonfield, NJ USA

            
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Phyllis Adamson, BA, IBCLC
Glendale, AZ.
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