http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00123 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00123#comment-2162 Richard Linchitz MD Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:05:10 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/?p=123#comment-2162 If mammography statistical rates are viewed as a measure of the success of the health care "system", then any free-thinking women who object to the repeated radiation exposure and breast compreassion, unnessesary biopsies and fear, etc., will be seen as part of the "failure" of the system. The problem with all these "systems" is they ignore the patient's right to choose alternative means of diagnosis and treatment and attempt to foster only the failed pharmaceutically and interventionally-based current paradigm. If mammography statistical rates are viewed as a measure of the success of the health care “system”, then any free-thinking women who object to the repeated radiation exposure and breast compreassion, unnessesary biopsies and fear, etc., will be seen as part of the “failure” of the system. The problem with all these “systems” is they ignore the patient’s right to choose alternative means of diagnosis and treatment and attempt to foster only the failed pharmaceutically and interventionally-based current paradigm.

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