One factor in not having regular mammographies is not having a family
doctor. Same with pap smears and all that good stuff.

I was once at the local hospital with a friend. The mammography office was
next door to us, so I stopped in to see if I could have one done. My last
mammography was in 1998 and there's a high frequency of cancer on the
maternal side of my family. 

The technician asked if I had a family doctor. I don't. 

She said she couldn't do a mammography on me, as she had no one to send the
results to. When I suggested the obvious, that she send them to me, she
replied that she couldn't do that. When I persisted, she refused, saying she
wasn't allowed to send the results to patients. "What, for example, if the
results are positive?" (Well, duh, I'd get myself to the hospital!)

Last year, our community finally got a walk-in clinic. Now people who don't
have doctors can have such tests done.

Ocean

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