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If true, sounds like someone got their lobbying money's worth.
Being a guy, the best part of a woman are her breasts (in my opinion), as they serve mutiple purposes and define a woman's sexuality and fertility. But, all joking and kidding aside, breast cancer is no laughing matter as my mother had it and is a survivor of it. Luckily for her, it was diagnosed early and the cancerous lump was removed before it got a chance to fully metastate and spread, saving my mom from having the dreaded mastectomy. I doubt a cure for cancer will ever be found, considering we still don't what causes it or where it truly manifests from, but we can all be proactive and push our elected idiots in Congress to support better screening processes and serious consequences for sloppy and misdiagnosed screening. Again, my apologies for the title if anyone found it offensive, but I carefully crafted it to inspire interest in what I had to say.
I don't know about soft-tissue x-rays, like breast cancer screens, but for bones and such the digital seems to work great. The technicians can review the pictures immediately, and they can be read anywhere in the hospital or around town with cheap PC software, with no need for a courier to carry the films from place to place.
Whenever my wife has to go for a follow-up cancer screen, the original films have to be dug out of a library at another hospital and be hand-carried. It takes five days for the hospital to retrieve them from their offsite, too. It would be much more elegant, and cheaper at this stage, if they were digitized.
I sure wouldn't want a robot looking at my digital images and deciding if I was sick, though. Not until it can outscore a human.
Whenever my wife has to go for a follow-up cancer screen, the original films have to be dug out of a library at another hospital and be hand-carried. It takes five days for the hospital to retrieve them from their offsite, too. It would be much more elegant, and cheaper at this stage, if they were digitized.
I sure wouldn't want a robot looking at my digital images and deciding if I was sick, though. Not until it can outscore a human.
I agree with Delbert. I do not think the problem is the digital technology. It is the digital detection.
That said. It amazes me how women's health issues still lags behind mens in our society where everyone should be treated equally. This is just another example.
Another example is how some insurance companies covered Viagra before birth control pills.
Also, Viagra is covered but any help for the women to conceive like ovulation medications are not.
Well, I will get off my soap box now and just end with, those fargin bastages.
edited for the new "feature" where we cannot put a subject in when commenting on a blog. GO TR!!
That said. It amazes me how women's health issues still lags behind mens in our society where everyone should be treated equally. This is just another example.
Another example is how some insurance companies covered Viagra before birth control pills.
Also, Viagra is covered but any help for the women to conceive like ovulation medications are not.
Well, I will get off my soap box now and just end with, those fargin bastages.
edited for the new "feature" where we cannot put a subject in when commenting on a blog. GO TR!!
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