I believe that health insurance has created this model of charging for
one on one services even when not thorough or even helpful.  I do not
know if this is true, but I heard that until the 1800s, in Eastern
Medicine, the physician only got paid if he kept the patient healthy and
alive.  If he did not succeed, the doctors own life was even on the
line.  A cruel thought.

But really, when my first daughter was born in 1975 my husband who
witnessed her birth in the local hospital, took our check for the
remaining 50% balance of the fee out of his shirt chest pocket and
handed it to our OB/GYN as they both exited the delivery room.  My
husband said good job and personally handed him the check.  He told me
the look on the docs face was priceless.  Usually payment came in from
his front office and money never touched his hands.  My husbands action
reminded him he was in our employ, a novel thought for a rather arrogant
man.

Whatever our job, when being paid directly, we know if we have really
earned the fee.
Judy Ritchie



I agree that we need to be paid for our time working w/ the mother.  I
paid every single physician that looked at Timothy when he lost his
memory, and not a single one of them were able to help him -- not one.
But that didn't stop them from charging me big time.  AND -- this is my
next point -- if you don't know what to do to help a mother, at the very
least, you can (a) do some education and (b) refer her on to a more
experienced IBCLC or another health care professional that CAN help her.
That was something the docs for Timothy did not do.  If the "tests" came
back normal, they dismissed me and never referred me on further.  No
education, no referral, no nothing.  It wasn't in their experiential
grid, so they didn't know what to do except get us out of their office
as fast as possible.


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