I’m sorry to say that such professional complacency is increasingly common in medicine. Although we tell pregnant patients to quit smoking and drinking and to take their prenatal pills, and we screen for certain diseases, the list of childhood epidemics keeps stacking up. That’s a tragedy. But for the most part, we physicians simply go about our business assuming someone else will someday do something about it. This apathy toward prenatal care has affected the way the general public thinks, as well. I brought up the prenatal pill earlier, so let’s look at that as one example. A woman recently
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