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Date: 22 January 2007 15:14:54
Today I am back to work and miserable as usual... not smoking at work isn't so bad, but driving home and all that sort of stuff is much more difficult. I have also had a bit of a run in with one of the doctor's today. I have a client who is 33 weeks pregnant and is stable on a methadone programme. She is getting pretty fed up with with receiving contradictory information from different professionals as to whether she will be able to breastfeed. As pregnancy and drug use is my special interest I know that the recent evidence shows that it is fine to breastfeed and it should be positively encouraged. So, I was pretty pissed off when this client came in today to be told by one of our doctors that she needs to come off her methadone. The nail in the coffin though was that I had documented the key worker appointment I had with the client last week and included in the file all the evidence about breastfeeding and methadone! I sometimes wonder why I even bother being efficient and professional. So, I had a head-to-head with the doctor and told her she could take it up with our consultant if she had a problem with it.
Bring it on!!!