In a message dated 10/6/98 12:56:44 PM, Debbie A wrote:

<<must report that their Clinical Manager--in charge of staffing the offices--
didn't know that there was such a thing as a Lactation Consultant!   (All I
can say is:  Could you die, and is it any wonder why I feel that I am in an
unenlightened area?)>>

don't feel so all alone. a few years back, working at a women's hospital in
Washington DC; when I told an OB resident that I was the lactation consultant
on that day he burst out laughing "a lac-ta-tion con-sul-tant!?! never heard
of that! you need to go on David Letterman - he would love that! I can just
imagine what Letterman would do with that!"

later, after setting that resident straight, I wrote Letterman. Well, he never
did write back nor did he invite me onto his TV show! I wanted to tell that
resident "HA! WRONG AGAIN curdled formula breath!"

Deborah Tobin RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Northern Virginia USA
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