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Raining on Medicine's Parade

William A. Sturrock, MD

Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(4):349.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

I WAS a rainy Friday afternoon with the prospects for an equally bleak weekend, according to the forecasts, when I stepped into the exam room with the last patient of the day. I was surprised to see June G., a 48-year-old woman, who with her husband worked on a small dairy farm in the next town. I had just seen her for a health maintenance exam the week before.

"June, what can I do for you today?" I began with my best openended line.

"Well, Doc," she answered, "I was doing fine and planned to get those tests you ordered after my physical when I read this in the paper."

She handed me a recent section of the Bangor Daily News with the bold print headline "Study Fuels Controversy Over Mammograms" and said, "You should have at least warned me that those x-rays could cause cancer."

I took the article . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


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