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Drawing on feminist insights, the best of the new clinics seek to provide total basic care. They are a kind of one-stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff...
Rosoff chose not to administer a biopsy or mammogram, which are common diagnostic procedures...
Phyllis J. Kornguth, chief of mammography atthe Yale School of Medicine, and Charles S.Lipson, a New Bedford surgeon, testified thatRosoff should have given Thrope a mammogram, anX-ray exam of the breasts, Allar said...
...interview this week, Rosoff's lawyer,Barbara H. Buell, said Rosoff had no reason toadminister a mammogram...
Buell said it is not standard procedure to givemammograms to women of Thrope's young age. Thefact that Thrope was pregnant at the time and thepossibility that radiation from the X ray could beharmful contributed to Rosoff's decision not toadminister a mammogram, she said...