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Date: | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:49:57 -0500 |
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>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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