Winnie says,

> Without getting into whether what was reportedly done by the LC
> during the consult (which is definitely a subject for discussion),
> my question is-When you see a doctor, are you charged based on
> whether or not he is able to "cure" what ails you?  You are charged
> for the visit.  If you don't feel you were helped, you may very well
> seek another opinion, but very few people would ask for thier money
> back.

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.

We can be MORE professional than that -- and I think we have an ethical
responsibility to say honestly that (a) we don't know something, but we will try to
find the answer, or (b) refer on to an IBCLC that has more experience in a
particular area so that the mother doesn't feel charged & abandoned.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, RLC
Wheaton, Illinois
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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