Fellow Lactnetters and dear friends: I need your help in order to remain=20 on Lactnet. Since I cannot afford a computer, hard disk, modem and=20 printer, I have been getting my email at work, in the Cardiology Division= =20 of Soroka Medical Center (I am English medical secty and editor).=20 Yesterday, my boss informed me that he no longer wants me to conduct my=20 "lactation activities" (ie, email) in the cardiology department, since it= =20 "wasn't the place". He was *not* honest in his reasons for giving my=20 email the heave-ho. I strongly suspect that one of the other=20 cardiologists complained, although I haven't the foggiest on what=20 grounds, since I only do my email in the evenings or on the weekends, and= =20 occasionally will see one of the other docs also working in the office. Since my boss listens to fellow physicians and also is an avid researcher, = I=20 would like to appeal to you MDs, professors, authors and researchers out=20 there in Lactnetland to email him to reconsider. We had just begun=20 discussing doing a research project ("Impact of infant feeding method on=20 cardiac risk factors"), but if I am obliged to look for=20 financial support as an LC and write proposals and all that gunk so that I= =20 can receive Lactnet at home, I clearly will have no time for this research= =20 project (see attached, I hope). I'm sure that all of you feel as I do,=20 that lactation is a branch of preventative medicine, affecting all=20 branches of medicine. After Osbourne's research in the 60s and ongoing=20 recent studies in infant feeding method and adult lipid breakdown, there=20 is certainly a good case to be presented for breastfeeding preventing=20 cardiac risk factors if not cardiac disease directly. I am also sure that= =20 you agree with me that Lactnet is more a vehicle of continuing education=20 than a "discussion group". As an LC, it has become vital to me. =09If you can think of something nice to say on my behalf to=20 persuade my boss not to make me get my email "somewhere else" (HAH!), pleas= e=20 post your remarks (and include your titles, place of work, interest in=20 lactation and lactation research, Lactnet's place in the scheme of=20 things, etc.) to Prof. Alexander Battler at < [log in to unmask] >= =20 and ASAP, please. If anyone out there is connected with WHO, UNESCO, CDC,= =20 NIH or the like (I'm so upset, initials fail me!), you are especially=20 important, since in Israel lactation has no priority status whatsoever in= =20 reality, and I've been in the trenches for 11 years now trying to change=20 this and convince people that this dismal attitude doesn't prevail in all= =20 the world.=20 =09I am much obliged for any and all responses. Meanwhile, I have=20 gone NOMAIL, so you can email me privately.=20 Kathleens, thank you for your concern. Now you know the story. Only thing= =20 keeping me from crying now in rage and frustration is the fact that I'm=20 at work.... Judy Knopf in backward Beer Sheva, Israel =FFWPC 4 =20