--- Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A woman had an unecessary double mastectomy in > Minnesota. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/18/medical.mistake.ap/index.html > > Worse than a Junior Mint, I think.
<shudder> Redundancy in healthcare is neither wasteful nor a luxury. And a second opinion (though in this case, with the labs switched, that might not have helped) is never wrong to get, except in the most immediately life-threatening situations (frex an intracranial bleed). Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
