HDF 304 Chapter Article: Dr. Jennifer Lincoln’s Response to “Expecting Better”

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 304
• Professor: M Gleason

Document Summary

It seems that the author of expecting better did not get what she needed during her pregnancy in terms of information and explanation. This book could be about the importance of communication doctors need to think about what they can do to better communicate. Not every patient wants the detailed information, this can be scary to them. Oster says in her book that because of the studies she has read that it is okay to drink an occasional alcoholic drink in the first trimester and daily alcoholic drinks in the second and third trimester. She believes the recommendation was made much too liberally. Lincoln wholeheartedly believes that pregnant women should not consume alcohol during their pregnancy. Lincoln believes oster comes at many of the topics as an economist rather than a physician. Li(cid:374)col(cid:374) took a(cid:374) oath as a physicia(cid:374) to first do (cid:374)o har(cid:373).