My thanks to Al Lewis of quizzify.com for bringing this story to my attention. It seems that a 57-year-old woman who had a history of a double mastectomy for breast cancer was told by her employer that she had to get her annual screening mammogram or she would be fined each...
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I assume many of you have heard by now of the Canadian randomized controlled mammography study that found that 25 years later, there was no difference in breast cancer death rates between 40-59 year-old women who had mammograms vs. those who did not. I won’t go into a lot of further...
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I attended a Payment Reform Summit sponsored by the Texas Academy of Family Physicians this past weekend. It was a good conference and provided a snapshot of current views and attempts to grow family medicine and pay for it. There were some emotional ups and downs for me as I listened...
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