Rebekah, This sounds like a pretty clear case of malpractice. Limiting care and not offering appropriate tx is, most likely, against state law. You and the mom need to contact; (1) the state medical board, (2) a really good public interest attorney (do you have a public interest research group in CA?); (3) state legislator and (4) the media. If this physician is not tx the mom, who else isn't he/she treating? I bet the elected officials could get things moving a little faster, I'm sure there is a provision, buried deep in the guidelines, for a second opinion. This mom needs lots of advocacy. Best of luck Johanna Berger, LSW Breastfeeding Counselor Bala Cynwyd, PA ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html