"told a mom the vaginal
bleeding the baby had (4 days old) was due to hormones in her milk and made
her stop breastfeeding and give formula x 24 hours - then saw the soft
yellow stool and put baby on pedialyte  and Kaopectate!)"

YIKES! With all due respect, sounds like the doctor needs some education.

I know some of you out there are also lawyers; would this kind of action (if
indeed this were the whole story - I KNOW we only have a little bit of it
here) be grounds for a legal action of some sort? Do you have to prove that
harm has resulted from a physician's poor practice in order to make a claim?
How much/what kind of harm, if so?

Not bashing, but very curious about what the legal definition of "doing
harm" would be.

Cathy Bargar, RN, IBCLC Ithaca NY