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Date: | Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:36:48 -0500 |
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Whatever happened to choice? Isn't everyone always going on about that?
But I guess choice is only the right to choose artificial feeding. I
suppose this same neonatologist would defend the mother's right to feed
artificially even if there was an extremely strong history of juvenile
diabetes in the family or a strong family history of severe asthma.
Even a just a history of illicit drug use? Don't we believe in
forgiveness or redemption anymore? Once an abuser always an abuser, eh?
Sorry, no hard data available from me. I think the neonatologist should
provide hard data that the children women with a history of alcohol
abuse or illicit drug use who are breastfed have poorer outcomes than
those who were not breastfed.
One case of possible intoxication of a baby from illicit drugs and we
are ready to make a policy like that. Yet this neonatologist, every
day, uses drugs which have killed many people--ampicillin, gentamicin.
This fact does not seem to deter him from using them though.
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
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