Ok, I confess. I play a game of semantics in my personal attempt to "not
diagnose or prescribe."

First of all, I call the moms my "clients", not my patients. Secondly, I
make "assessments", not diagnoses (this gets really fun when I must
determine a differential.........uh, assessment?). And then I make
"suggestions" for a care plan, which may be practical or of a pharmaceutical
nature.

Diane Wiessinger said: "And so the mother and baby fall into an information
hole unless someone expands the boundaries of some other niche.  Medicine
has been unconscionably slow to embrace breastfeeding research as it
pertains to their field.  *We've* done it purely because *they* haven't."

Amen, Diane. But until this fact is officially recognized, perhaps my bills
should be changed to read "assessment code" (said with tongue firmly planted
in cheek).

Lisa Marasco

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