Compare Screening Of Breasts and Shoes
The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force feels that mammograms are a waste of time and money because of false-positive exams, and anyway, the risk is evaluated at a meager 0.05% (Letters, Dec. 2). If, indeed, mammograms for women under 50 are not cost effective, and only save a few lives, then why are we taking our shoes off at every airport in the country?
Lee Mundy
Ellensburg, Wash.
The blog of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (FIRM)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Mundy: Comparing Screening of Breasts and Shoes
Lee Mundy asks the following very perceptive question in this LTE in the December 7, 2009 Wall Street Journal:
