How frustrating this must be for those of you who have worked so hard to acquire and maintain your credential.
   
  As a person who is considering taking the exam in a few years, it is downright depressing! I am seriously considering re-thinking my long-term carreer goals. Why work so hard to become credentialed if I am basically impotent.
   
  I do not think that all MDs give out bad information, but there are some MDs who do not have much bf knowledge and advise mothers to do things that are at best comical, and at worst, disastorous to the breastfeeding relationship. Of course, we cannot expect physicians to be experts in all areas, but is it too much to ask that they seek information from someone who may be more up-to-date in an area where their knowledge is lacking? Also, if an MD is a pediatrician, OB/Gyn, I do not think it is unreasonable that they at least have some basic, up-to-date knowledge about breastfeeding. Just about every mother I know who has even a bit of breastfeeding knowledge realises it is incorrect to reccomend weaning as a course of action for mastitis, but I cannot count how many mothers I have come into contact with who were told by their doctors to wean immediately in the case of mastitis. That is only one example.

  I thought that we had such a resource available to physicians and patients... LACTATION CONSULTANTS! 
   
  --Kellie Whitney
  


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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:10:18 -0400
From: =?windows-1252?Q?Terri_Lear?= 
Subject: Scope of Practice & Ethics

As far as I can tell, if we follow the new SoP section=20
about "Contradicting or ignoring the advice of a client's health care=20
provider," we could very likely place ourselves in direct violation of ou=
r=20
Code of Ethics. 
 		
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