Archive for November 2009

Debate over mammograms reveals need for confidence in health care

Friday, November 20th, 2009

This week we have had a disquieting reminder of one of the challenges we face in overhauling health care in America – the public are deeply distrustful of “experts.”
The US Preventive Services Task Force – an appointed body of leading clinicians and scientists – issued a new recommendation of when women ought to have mammograms. [...]

William L. Roper, MD, MPH
CEO, University of North Carolina
Health Care System