Women are waiting weeks for a mammogram
“Women had to wait between 1 and 4 weeks for diagnostic mammography, designed to investigate a possible problem. For regular screening mammograms, women waited up to 8 weeks for an appointment.

Study author Dr. Carl D’Orsi of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia said that he believed that over time, women might have an even harder time getting an appointment for a mammogram. And if women have to wait even longer for a mammogram, they may not get one at all, he said.”

Hmm . . . perhaps this is because reading mammograms is a low-reward, high-risk field:

A mammogram is an inherently limited study with relatively low sensitivity and specificity. Unfortunately, the public does not understand these limitations because the exam has been oversold as a diagnostic modality (We are told this is for the public’s “own good”). As a result, people have a difficult time understanding why breast abnormalities are “missed” or “misinterpreted” during routine mammography. Personal injury lawyers ruthlessly take advantage of this dilemma by scavenging mammograms involved in breast cancer cases. They prey on this ignorance by holding radiologists to impossible standards bolstered with retrospective analyses of mammograms done by venal physicians in their stable of “experts”. As a result, mammography is the single highest liability risk for radiologists (and the second highest risk in all of medicine). For a $15 reading fee, radiologists can face multi-million dollar lawsuits.