It was a bit surprising for me to read your post, because in my country there are mammologists - and they are called so.
They are mostly obstetricians and/or oncologists with interest in breast cancer - and breast cancer prevention too, which means they are doing the annual breast examinations and mammograms, if necessary.
Sometimes we refer lactating mothers to them too - for evaluating inflammation, treatment of mastitis and breast abcess and more difficult situations (papilomas etc). But they cannot help with breastfeeding problems, of course - I have had experiences of mothers who got the suggestion for abrupt weaning because of nipple cracks!
Christina Yaneva
BF Peer Councellor,
Bulgaria
--- On Sat, 10/10/09, Jacquie Nutt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Jacquie Nutt <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Wanted: Mammologists
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:35 AM
> From 9 Oct NY Times, in an article on
> breast cancer (not a murmur about breastfeeding, sigh)
>
> "The breast is something of an orphan in our health care
> system. We have cardiologists, nephrologists, hepatologists,
> proctologists and neurologists - but we have no
> "mammologists." How did the breast get lost?
>
> "To answer this question we need to look at the division of
> labor in medicine and the history of specialization."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/opinion/10DeVries.html?th&emc=th
>
> Not sure if the article DID answer the question or merely
> outline the problem, but it sure left out the role of
> lactation specialists.
>
> The lactating breast uses up more resting energy than the
> brain: 30% vs 23% according to Peter Hartmann in the
> Textbook of Human Lactation, pg 13 - an interesting essay on
> the inter-relatedness of lactation and of the brain in human
> development and evolution. Prof Hartmann talks about
> the "stark difference in the medical appreciation of the two
> organs.....for example, tens of thousands of scientists
> attend annual neuroscience research conferences, whereas
> less than two hundred scientists attend the International
> Society for Research into Human Milk and Lactation
> conference held every other year."
>
> No, he didn't have any suggestions for improvement either.
>
> Imagine the functions of a true "mammologist"....breast
> health from cradle to grave in the hands of one
> specialty. Is it possible? Is it
> necessary? Is it more necessary to keep breast advice
> OUT of the hands of certain health practitioners who don't
> care to know enough about lactation not to sabotage it?
>
> Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
> Wellington, South Africa
>
>
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