"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty: "There once was a man named O'Bama ..." http://ow.ly/1nUH3 - HCR limericks and a cold one for BobMarch 18, 2010 5:24
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RT @yejnes: My thoughts on the annual exam, etc., final letter ACP Internist, March 2010 http://bit.ly/9FNcXn wel-stated & importantMarch 15, 2010 12:47
A note to the professors, from the "real" world, on the use of ICDs in a fee for service community... http://ow.ly/1jaPy - great postMarch 13, 2010 2:19
RT @paulinechen: New "Doctor and Patient"; Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear http://nyti.ms/bYA14V - blog post comingMarch 12, 2010 1:35
RT @tom_peters: @kevinmd Spoken like an MD. - true primary care is very complex - it is not simple care -March 11, 2010 12:43
RT @efalchuk: Seriously, what is Nancy Pelosi Talking About? http://bit.ly/9sHSc2 #healthreform #hcr #healthcare think Dazed and ConfusedMarch 10, 2010 7:53
Obama Says Health Overhaul Should Trump Politics - http://nyti.ms/bwKRyo - and he is correctMarch 8, 2010 7:28
Oy. One of my sore spots is that the medical profession impresses on new mothers at every turn how important breastfeeding is — and then when there are problems push them off on poorly trained paraprofessionals known as “lactation consultants.” Last time I breastfed I had sufficiency problems — my son was always hungry and there was no way to express any milk to get a rest. I went to two lactation consultants. One told me to take fenugreek — an untested dietary supplement that’s also used to make imitation maple syrup. I took it until I smelled like the inside of an International House of Pancakes, but it didn’t do a damn thing to increase my milk supply. A second lactation consultant recommended meditation — with crystals she wanted to sell me. It was difficult to refrain from telling her I’d feel a lot more “centered” if I could beat her over the head with the Yellow Pages that the doctors referred me to when I asked questions about breastfeeding.
Come on DB, don’t feign surprise here. This is the Bush adminstration and it does what its industry sponsors want–in whatever industry you care to name. The AAP is just a speedbump on the infant formula industry’s racetrack to DHHS, and a speedbump they steamrollered flat in a few seconds. DHHS obliged by pulling the ads. So sure it might stop an ad campaign that might change a few mums’ minds about breast feeding, but it’s not as this administration would do anything too awful at the behest of corporations at whose nipple it suckles…..it’s not as if it would eviscerate clean air standards or borrow from our grandkids for tax giveaways to the 1% of richest Americans or invade Iraq or anything like that.
Formula-Fed Babies
My wife and I have two babies (11 months & 26 months) so this issue gets me riled up. DB’s Medical Rants links to The Milky Way of Doing Business by Katie Allison Granju. Just as the tobacco industry created…
4 Responses to Infant formula companies and breastfeeding
Lisa Williams
December 29th, 2003 at 5:23 pm
Oy. One of my sore spots is that the medical profession impresses on new mothers at every turn how important breastfeeding is — and then when there are problems push them off on poorly trained paraprofessionals known as “lactation consultants.” Last time I breastfed I had sufficiency problems — my son was always hungry and there was no way to express any milk to get a rest. I went to two lactation consultants. One told me to take fenugreek — an untested dietary supplement that’s also used to make imitation maple syrup. I took it until I smelled like the inside of an International House of Pancakes, but it didn’t do a damn thing to increase my milk supply. A second lactation consultant recommended meditation — with crystals she wanted to sell me. It was difficult to refrain from telling her I’d feel a lot more “centered” if I could beat her over the head with the Yellow Pages that the doctors referred me to when I asked questions about breastfeeding.
matthew holt
December 29th, 2003 at 6:55 pm
Come on DB, don’t feign surprise here. This is the Bush adminstration and it does what its industry sponsors want–in whatever industry you care to name. The AAP is just a speedbump on the infant formula industry’s racetrack to DHHS, and a speedbump they steamrollered flat in a few seconds. DHHS obliged by pulling the ads. So sure it might stop an ad campaign that might change a few mums’ minds about breast feeding, but it’s not as this administration would do anything too awful at the behest of corporations at whose nipple it suckles…..it’s not as if it would eviscerate clean air standards or borrow from our grandkids for tax giveaways to the 1% of richest Americans or invade Iraq or anything like that.
Gary Gnu
December 30th, 2003 at 4:54 pm
Yes, it’s the Bush administration’s fault. I think they caused the earthquake in Iran too.
DouglasWhitehead.com
December 30th, 2003 at 5:12 pm
Formula-Fed Babies
My wife and I have two babies (11 months & 26 months) so this issue gets me riled up. DB’s Medical Rants links to The Milky Way of Doing Business by Katie Allison Granju. Just as the tobacco industry created…