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To: KLP who wrote (214568)	8/5/2007 2:12:52 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) of 793990

In a public hospital I have no problem if the mandate is to not push formula on mothers, just as I would have the mandate be not to offer people cigarettes and hard liquor. Should they want these things, I would want them to be available, but I would like the public health mandate to be that we do not offer samples of these things in the hospital. I have no problem with the mandate of elected officials pushing policies that promote public health in a way that outlines how public health agencies offer goods and services to the public. I'd like to know that patients are getting the best, most up to date advice and service- and that inferior products are not pushed on patients merely because the corporations that offer them would like to bribe medical folks to help sell their products- by paying doctors and hospitals to do this sort of thing. There is no mandate to punish mothers for using formula, there is merely a mandate to promote better health through breastfeeding. Do you have the same problem with mandates which promote abstinence from drug use in the young?

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