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The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction

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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.

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.

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.

The Death of Mammography is a book that every health care professional needs to read. The authors introduce each chapter with a case study that continues throughout the entire book. The information in each chapter is priceless and includes information on the history of breast cancer and mammography; the progression of the disease; diagnostic procedures; prevention and treatment; education of radiologists and technologists; litigation and tort reforms; and a few additional topics. The book is an eye-opener into both the medical and legal sides of breast cancer, and serves as a first-rate reference manual.

Jackson and Righi have struck a fine balance between social history, clinical information, and legal issues. There's a minimal amount of legalese and doctor-speak (and whatever techinical terms are used are clearly explained). A particular favorite of mine was the chapter on the history of breast cancer -- I had no idea about St. Agatha! All in all, a good read on a confusing (and potentially frightening) topic.

The story told by this timely and well-written text is critically important to the health of our nation and our medical system. Dr. Righi and Ms. Jackson cut through the challenging medical jargon to provide a clear comprehensive picture of the role of the mammogram in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, as well as the risks we are taking, especially with women's health, when it comes to medical malpractice litigation.

As an attorney and a professor in law, I found Dr. Righi's and Ms. Jackson's critique of the legal profession's attack on mammography poignant, truthful, and painfully accurate. It is an important work addressing a crucial issue in women's health. It is short, easy-to-read, and dispels many of the myths associated with cancers, especially breast cancer, while it hammers away at the need for tort reform.

I highly recommend this book. And, after you've read it, share your copy with your congressman, senator, representative, or legislator. It's that important.

Ms. Jackson's text is well organized and well thought-out, detailing the dilemma facing the current practice of Mammography. She explains in clear English how the U.S. legal system is out of control and is strangling sectors of healthcare that are critical to maintaining the welfare of our population. Physicians are refusing to read mammograms; residents are showing no interest in learning breast imaging; all as a result of the current medical legal climate.

This book is a must read for anyone wishing to understand the current malpractice crisis. With an aging population and fewer and fewer physicians choosing to enter high risk fields such as radiology, one couldn't ask for a more timely text. Ms. Jackson attempts to maintain balance in her explanations and reveals what attorneys do not want the populace to know. While medicine is not perfect, the only true winners in the current medical-legal landscape are the trial lawyers

Jordan Barnett, MD FACEP FAAEM