The best medical tool for detecting breast cancer is being driven to extinction by outrageous lawsuits, putting millions of women at risk. A practising radiologist confronts the legislative and legal tangles strangling breast-cancer screening today and argues for reforms to our legal and healthcare systems. Early detection of breast cancer can make the difference between life and death - and mammography is the best diagnostic tool available today. However, radiologists across the country, faced with the prospect of litigation and the high cost of malpractice insurance, now refuse to read mammograms. Radiology students are passing over specialising in breast imaging, and in the last few years over 700 mammography centres across the United States have closed their doors. Today, the number of women needing regular mammograms exceeds the capacity of the dwindling ranks of radiologists able and willing to read a mammogram. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the crisis and specific solutions.
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Rene' Jackson, R.N., B.S.N., M.S. is a Special Procedures Nurse in Medical Imaging at Charlotte Medical Center, Punta Gorda, Florida. Author of more than forty healthcare and nursing articles, she is also a reviewer and contributor for many professional manuals.
Alberto Righi, M.D., is the medical director of a radiology group in Florida. He obtained his M.D. at the U. of South Florida; his radiology specialty at Tulane; and his neuroradiology specialty at the U. of Miami.
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Read For The Health of Your Family,
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This review is from: The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction (Paperback)
Ms. Jackson has provided an informative resource for women and their families who need to learn more about breast cancer, detection, treatment and psyche. But more importantly, this book provides an accurate depiction, although little understood truth, that our health care system has been taken over by lawyers and their political allies, who threaten to eliminate the technological tools and the health care professionals and facilities we take for granted, with their win at all cost assault on the medical profession. Read this book, and then send a copy to your U.S. Senator.
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This is a must read for mothers and daughters everywhere!,
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This review is from: The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction (Paperback)
Upon completion of this book, I immediately ordered a copy to send to my daughter. The book is so well written and organized that I found whenever I had a question, all I had to do was read further into the chapter and it would be answered. I found the explanations completely accessible yet not condescending. The prose is understated and so compelling. It is significant that the authors combined trying personal experience with important clinical information and turned it into something that can benefit so many people. After reading this book, I am convinced that we are in danger of destroying the best option we have for early detection of breast cancer. If we are not all aware of the problem and working actively for a solution, then we are doomed to passively stand by and watch the death of this important diagnostic tool.
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An in-depth and thought-provoking study of the beneficial diagnostic tool of mammography,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction (Paperback)
Co-authored by Rene Jackson (Special Procedures Nurse in Medical Imaging at Charlotte Regional Medical Center, Punta Gorda, Florida) and Alberto Righi (Medical Director of a radiology group in Florida), The Death Of Mammography: How Our Best Defence Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven To Extinction is an in-depth and thought-provoking study of the beneficial diagnostic tool of mammography and the legal and economic challenges this procedure is encountering. Comprehensively analyzing the positive use of the use of the mammogram, The Death Of Mammography provides readers with a clear description of breast cancer and treatment options, explains mammography technology, reveals how legislative and legal issues are restricting breast-cancer screening, and realistic solutions and reforms. The Death Of Mammography is very strongly recommended for non-specialist general readers and health activists involved with the issue of breast cancer and mammography.
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