Jan wrote, asking, << Now, if these have ICD-9 codes, does this mean they
are medical diagnoses?  >>

Jan, for those of us outside of the quasi-medical world, who generates these
codes?  Are they insurance/compensation related, or medical per se? Because,
while I agree with Rachel that letting the medical model take over lactation
would be problematic, surely letting insurance companies decide what LC's are
competent to do is stretching things too far!

Elisheva Urbas
non-hcp in NYC

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