WIC and Doctors

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So, I recently had a baby, and at everyone's insistance I've went and signed up for WIC (which I never did while I was pregnant) to get help buying the baby's formula. Well, my son has to have special formula (Similac Sensitive, because he is lactose intolerant) and when I first went to sign up for WIC they said they could give ME vouchers, but since my son needed special formula he had to have a "prescription" for it from the doctor which he SHOULD have given me when he saw my son, but he didn't. So, we went BACK to the doctor and got him to give me the form we needed for his special formula on WIC. Well, the doctor had left off one code on the form, and the WIC people still wont give me vouchers for his formula. They said I had to go BACK to the doctor and get him to fill in the code. I am so annoyed. It is taking a lot of my time running back and forth, not to mention I keep having to take my very young son out in the cold ever trip to the doctor and to the WIC office. Why can't the WIC office call the doctor and get him to fax them a new "prescription" so that this will all be over and done with? Or, better yet, why didn't the doctor to the right thing the first time? Or if it just slipped his mind, why didn't he do it right the SECOND time?