Dear Rachel and Colleagues

 

What is the fastest way to clean an oven?  Turn out the oven's light.

 

What is the easiest way to deal with the WHO Code?  Drop any requirement to
use it.

 

I agree with you.  The Code should be highlighted in the two documents we
have just received.

 

Joy

 

Joy Noel-Weiss RN IBCLC

 

 

Date:    Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:03:59 +0200

From:    Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: IBLCE speaks, on 'avoiding most perceived conflicts of interest'

 

Curiouser and curiouser - just got an e-mail from IBLCE on the bold and

decisive action they have taken to 'minimize' commercial influence on our

education, and quote from it here: "IBCLCs are placed in positions of

judgment and therefore should take extra steps so that commercial interests

do not compete with their professional duties to the clients they serve.

Through effective self-regulation, the "Minimizing Commercial Influence on

Education Policy" is intended to avoid most real or perceived conflicts of

interest that might unduly influence IBCLCs."

 

So, instead of IBLCE covering our backs, holding the bar of ethics high so

that we can use it to prevent employers from abusing the trust given us

by our users, IBCLCs have to regulate themselves.  What was wrong with the

WHO code?  Too utopian?  Or just too HARD?  Relying on it might cause

feelings of guilt in those unable to comply??   We just try to 'avoid most

real or perceived conflicts of interest that might unduly influence IBCLCs'

?  Is there any way that message could be more watered down, because I can

still almost detect a hint of awareness that conflict of interest is a

phenomenon in the real world?

 

I may be reading this in the worst possible light, but it appears to me

after reading the answers to the FAQs from IBLCE that it is possible for a

local organization to accept money from a formula manufacturer when they put

on a conference or a study day, as long as they disclose to those attending

that they got money from the mfr *and* the mfr has not made any

requirements about how the organization uses the money.  Whew!  Glad that's

sorted, once and for all!

 

If this is meant to mollify those of us with grave reservations about the

namby-pamby document they asked for comments on a couple of weeks ago, I'm

here to say it isn't working for me.

 

Rachel Myr

Kristiansand, Norway

 

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