The plan comes with other consumer - friendly perks, such as free email access to board - certified doctors 24 - 7, free generic prescription drugs, and three
free physician visits per year.
The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include
physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health
visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for
free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74
You never considered how your
physician acquired those
free samples he gave you at the last
visit, or how he decides to prescribe one drug over the other, but now — upon seeing the pharma rep — it starts to click into place.