>What do you do when your client, who's been working so 
>diligently to protect/build her milk supply while struggling with 
>her infant's suck problems, goes in for a well baby check and 
>to ask for a ENT referral for frenotomy and the Dr. tells her 
>that "Nobody works this hard at breastfeeding...why don't you 
>just give up?"

Some years ago I heard a radio piece by a journalist who'd had breast cancer.  "My first oncologist just didn't work well with me," she said, "so I fired him."  

Wow!  I'd never heard it put that way before, and it really hit home.  Made me realize in an instant what the doctor/patient relationship really is.  It's really patient/doctor, isn't it?  Like car owner/mechanic or homeowner/realtor.  The person in control comes first, the advisor comes second and is accountable to the consumer, not vice versa.

Like the old woman who was brushed off by a clerk in a grocery store.  She drew herself up and said, "Young man, I don't think you quite understand.  *I* am profit.  *You* are overhead."  

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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