>  Although
>I can understand the frustration in the occasional cases where a referral
>still needs to be made, I believe that most people are best served by seeing
>their "primary MD".  Alicia Dermer, M.D.
>
Hi Alicia, no slur intended on family physicians..Here,though, mothers
generally have a very hard time getting a family MD to treat yeast
seriously.  They are usually told that there is no yeast there and  that
your nipples should just have to toughen up.

Kathleen, who wishes all family physicians were like Alicia : )

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Kathleen B. Bruce RN, BSN, IBCLC (email = [log in to unmask])
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is
violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." Schoepenhouer
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