Pam wrote:

"Something about mother baby care encourages health care providers to
make decisions and encourage choices based on their own choices. We
do not see this in management of any other health care field. Could
you just imagine a cardiac surgeon telling a patient that while it
would be better to quit smoking, here is a cigarette just in case you
cannot manage to quit? And that by pass surgery you just had would of
course be encouragement to quit, but I smoked for years and I have a
very healthy heart. Smoking probably doesn't play that huge a role in
your cardiac health anyway. I know, the ressearch, but they are just
anti smoking and don't want to protect your right to smoke." Or a
endocrinologist trying to get someone's diabetes under control saying
'look, all this sugar you eat is not that good for you, but I cannot
imagine giving up my donuts, so here is a coupon to the local bakery."
No way. Why, because that is not good medicine."


Wow, Pam.  I know I said we should be succinct in responding to all this nonsense about 
choice, but I changed my mind after I read your post.  I think your long post goes well 
beyond preaching to the choir and could actually change quite a few minds and give lots 
of people and "aha" moment.  

I think you could easily transform it into a killer op-ed piece.  

Kerry Ose

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