I have never been to a ped, (not unusual for Australia - where we have clinics for healthy babies) with either of my boys, but I do know one who was telling me his "older" collegues tend to base "too much" of their comments on what they were taught when they are training & not even keeping up with information supplied by their own Acadamy... he was talking about in Australia, but I think from some things said on this site it is relevent for the US & UK